LOTR - A Long-Postponed Re-Read

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Sauron did not have the one ring in Numenor, as it was clearly stated in the end of Akkalabeth:

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though
he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an
evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his
spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind
over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his
home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dûr, and dwelt
there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of
malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few
could endure.