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Marileangorifurnimaluim · 09-05-2002, 05:03 PM

I have trouble crediting Sauron with that much power.

There are many things in the LotR that though evil, or cruel, or inimical to people, or just plain sad, are not within the control of an uber-lord. Caradhras the cruel, the dragons, Ungoliant, Shelob, the Barrow-wights, Old Man Willow, the oathbreakers at Erech.

Sauron might make use of and be pleased by the restless dead of the Gladden Fields, but he cannot command their spirits anymore than he could command Shelob. Even if he were able (and I don't think even Melkor had that power, Melkor could only twist and mock life) it seems unlikely that at a time he was plotting and launching a great war, he would waste his time and energy on a parlor trick in a swamp at his doorstep that no one would see.

-Maril

09-05-2002, 05:03 PM	#3
Marileangorifurnimaluim Eerie Forest Spectre Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Buried in scrolls of fanfiction Posts: 798	I have trouble crediting Sauron with that much power. There are many things in the LotR that though evil, or cruel, or inimical to people, or just plain sad, are not within the control of an uber-lord. Caradhras the cruel, the dragons, Ungoliant, Shelob, the Barrow-wights, Old Man Willow, the oathbreakers at Erech. Sauron might make use of and be pleased by the restless dead of the Gladden Fields, but he cannot command their spirits anymore than he could command Shelob. Even if he were able (and I don't think even Melkor had that power, Melkor could only twist and mock life) it seems unlikely that at a time he was plotting and launching a great war, he would waste his time and energy on a parlor trick in a swamp at his doorstep that no one would see. -Maril __________________ Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?