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Re: Saruman's Ring
He also calls himself, among his other titles, 'Saruman Ring-Maker'.
On the power of his ring one can only specualte (and I never avoid a speculation).
Gandalf was an encourager, a kindler of fire within people. It fit him that he wore Narya.
If we compare both Saruman and Gandalf on this ground, we might call Saruman a seducer, or at least a rhetorical propagator. Did the ring work as a focus for his voice, or did it enforce his command over his orcs, perhaps?
Unlike the elven rings of preservation, Curunír's would have been one of reform, of change, or even new creation. It could also be possible that it was only complimentary to these, that it did not stand for raising new things, but destroying old. Was the Shire ravaged with the aid of the ring?
Considering that Saruman, as a Maia and disciple of Aule, should probably have been superior in skill to the elven smiths, he could only his lack of time for research and forging for the fact that he did not forge a second Ruling Ring.
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Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000003>Sharku</A> at: 3/11/01 2:16:23 pm