LOTR - A Long-Postponed Re-Read - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Pervinca Took · 10-13-2012, 04:14 PM

Have finished, barring the Appendices - and am up to the family trees.

Am wondering - why didn't Ar-Pharazon try to take the Ring from Sauron when he took him prisoner? I take it Sauron had him in a kind of spell, since he managed the Downfall of Numenor through his "imprisonment." If Ar-P desired immortality, the Ring would have given him that - after a fashion. Maybe Sauron deflected this with a very lyrical hard sell about invading Valinor.

Or maybe this is told in more depth somewhere else (Unfinished Tales, perhaps), and I've forgotten it.

10-13-2012, 04:14 PM	#3
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Have finished, barring the Appendices - and am up to the family trees. Am wondering - why didn't Ar-Pharazon try to take the Ring from Sauron when he took him prisoner? I take it Sauron had him in a kind of spell, since he managed the Downfall of Numenor through his "imprisonment." If Ar-P desired immortality, the Ring would have given him that - after a fashion. Maybe Sauron deflected this with a very lyrical hard sell about invading Valinor. Or maybe this is told in more depth somewhere else (Unfinished Tales, perhaps), and I've forgotten it. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 10-16-2012 at 03:25 PM.