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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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This topic was discussed here:
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=18770 My opinion is that Sauron's realm would have eventually torn itself apart through internal strife and civil war. A major theme of Professor Tolkien's work is the fissiparous nature of evil and I believe that thematic consistency would dictate that Sauron would, in time, lose control of parts of his own empire. Ring or no Ring, Sauron's will and attention was not omniscient or omnipresent, and Cirith Ungol alone shows how easily his own servants could fall to fighting each other. This was especially a problem with Orcs, as Professor Tolkien observes in the essay 'Orcs' published in Morgoth's Ring. Quote:
Oppression breeds rebellion as well. That being said, such a process might be expected to take hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
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