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Spirit of Mist
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Tol Eressea
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I do not think any of the Rings were intended for Men or Dwarves. LoTR is a bit ambiguous on this issue. In The Shadow of the Past Gandalf tells Frodo as follows:
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In Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, it is explicitly stated that when Sauron first put on the One Ring the Elves were aware of him and took off their Rings. Sauron then demanded that all the Rings be turned over to him. When Celebrimbor refused, war ensued and the Three were borne away and hidden. Quote:
The Three were made to preserve and heal and enhanced the power of their bearers to do so. The precise purposes of the Seven and the Nine are not known, but presumably, to some extent, they enhanced the natural abilities, power and desires of those who bore them. Thus the Dwarves who bore them became even more wealthy and skilled, for example, but being perverted by Sauron they also enhanced the Dwarves' natural tendency to be greedy as well. Could the Three Dwarven Rings that Sauron recovered have been used to make more Ring Wraiths? Pure speculation, but perhaps. We don't know when Sauron recovered any other than Thrain's Ring (T.A. 2845) but that is said to be the last of the Dwarven rings he recovered. Sauron entered Dol Guldur around T.A. 1100. It seems as if he would have plenty of time to create new wraiths, assuming he could do so. Maybe the "secret powers" of the Dwarven rings were simply not suited for this purpose. Or maybe Sauron kept them to gather their power to himself.
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