However, the small and weak can also fall, they just do less damage when they do. Smeagol, Lotho, Grima, Bill Ferny are just some of those who fell to the temptations of petty power or trivial wealth, and as far as they were concerned then their fall was no less than that of a Feanor or Ar-Pharazon.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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