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Was it the innate ability of the elves, or their superb craftsmenship? These Noldor have a history of creating things that Vala / Maia covet.... and on a related note -
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I would have to say that in the case of Fëanor, his silmarils while the greatest creation by any Eldar, were not if fact something new but they captured the light of the Trees made by Yavanna. So in a way it was a memento of the Trees of Valinórë.
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It's interesting and somewhat ironic that - free peoples uniting aside - it seems to me, that only the elves (by an act of Grace?), in creating such powerfull rings, were ultimately the architects of the downfall of Sauron. Otherwise he would not have put so much of his power in the Ruling ring, and created the lynchpin of his own demise.?..?
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I have to totally disagree with this, it was not the Elves of their own accord that they created the rings but it was Sauron himself who had the initial idea of the Rings.
But if you think for a bit, would have Sauron endured this long without making the Ruling Ring?
I don't know for how long Sauron had "incarnated" himself with a body, but I think that it is very likely that without his ring, his bodily demise in both Númenor and with the Elendil/Erenion fight, that he would have been unable to reappear again in the Third Age.
So, yes with the destruction of the Ring, Sauron was "destroyed" if you will but would Sauron had been able to reincarnate himself after his Númenor and Second Age downfall?