Gandalf blew Galadriel's cover?!

[drigel]

egads thats what i get when im posting when im supposed to be working

It simply says what a bearer of one of these rings could achieve. The quote may as well say "...if they so choose."

but it doesnt - is my point. ex: - the quote could also say ".. also can fry bacon"...

I suppose this isn't the thread to discuss the nature of the three. It is a subject that has a lot of generalities and is open to different interpretations. I would suggest that S could and would have a use for any of the three if he had obtained one. Just like the Palantri, he didnt really need one, but it did come in handy - but, the Eye was already in play before he obtained one.

I was just thinking that the biggest threat to empire is precisely the "decays of time", and the "weariness" of the energy that it took to maintain said empire, especially after loosing the One. An "unholy" power of preservation in the physical plane.