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Originally Posted by Inziladun
Hmm. When dwelling in Dol Guldur, Sauron was basically biding his time, rebuilding his power and refining his plans, it seems. I don't think he was much involved with offensive operations in the days before Celeborn and Galadriel founded Lórien.
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Well he was... secretly, anyway. Wasn't he the one commanding the WK to weaken Arnor at this point?
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Originally Posted by Inziladun
Before they were there, why would he have felt it necessary to worry about Lórinand anyway? It was only a small settlement of Silvan Elves. There was a much larger contingent in Mirkwood, on his doorstep. If he'd been capable of any action against his foes, I'd think they would have been the greater threat to him.
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Well, those rustic elves did flee on the first sign of his shadow, which gives me the impression that they weren't so formidable. And mind you, Sauron was still recovering at this point. And I'm going by an excerpt in U.T. (History of G&C) where it mentions Sauron's invasion over Eriador after sacking the city of Hollin. He was ready to proceed to Mithlond and some where along those lines, it states his thoughts that, "Lorien could wait for now," which means he knew of this Elvish settlement already (thus it had to be important). Perhaps he knew Galadriel was there after convincing the Mirdain to wrest the power of Eregion from her?
But again, how his sorceries were overpowered by Galadriel baffles me, if he indeed came back to Dol Guldor more powerful than before. The riding of Eorl was a critical one and would have sealed Gondor's doom had it been averted. Yet, he couldn't fight back a river-mist? Wasn't he more powerful still even bereft of his ring?