Didn't Sauron Know?

***Khamûl*** · 07-26-2002, 12:54 AM

I was just flipping through The Fellowship of the Ring today, and something caught my attention. In the chapter "The Shadow of the Past", Gandalf tells Frodo that when Sauron arose again after the Last Alliance, he believed that the One Ring had been destroyed. Didn't Sauron know that if the Ring was destroyed, he would be destroyed too, since it had so much of his power in it? After all, when Gollum fell into the fires of Mount Doom with the Ring, the tower of Barad-Dûr was thrown down and Sauron and the Ringwraiths were destroyed too. Or could Gandalf have just been wrong?

07-26-2002, 12:54 AM	#1
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Didn't Sauron Know? I was just flipping through The Fellowship of the Ring today, and something caught my attention. In the chapter "The Shadow of the Past", Gandalf tells Frodo that when Sauron arose again after the Last Alliance, he believed that the One Ring had been destroyed. Didn't Sauron know that if the Ring was destroyed, he would be destroyed too, since it had so much of his power in it? After all, when Gollum fell into the fires of Mount Doom with the Ring, the tower of Barad-Dûr was thrown down and Sauron and the Ringwraiths were destroyed too. Or could Gandalf have just been wrong? __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

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