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How to survive in the abyss calamity2/22/2024 The Ring would ultimately be unmade when Gollum fell with it into the fires of Mount Doom. But somewhere in that transformation Sauron was able to escape (as a spirit) and return to Middle-earth, carrying the One Ring with him. What had been a “flat” world now became a round sphere. Of course, the story says that the shape of the world was changed. The implication here is that when Númenor was “thrown down” and destroyed, its land was driven downward into the sea. The One Ring could not be destroyed simply by “drowning” it hence, Sauron would have been aware of it on his “dead” body and thus able to take it up out of the sea. The indestructibility of spirits with free wills, even by the Creator of them, is also an inevitable feature, if one either believes in their existence, or feigns it in a story. That Sauron was not himself destroyed in the anger of the One is not my fault: the problem of evil, and its apparent toleration, is a permanent one for all who concern themselves with our world. Though reduced to ‘a spirit of hatred borne on a dark wind’, I do not think one need boggle at this spirit carrying off the One Ring, upon which his power of dominating minds now largely depended. Sauron was first defeated by a ‘miracle’: a direct action of God the Creator, changing the fashion of the world, when appealed to by Manwë: see III p. Tolkien answered this question in part in Letter No. Q: How Did the One Ring Survive the Downfall of Numenor?ĪNSWER: J.R.R.
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