If i may add something to your question about the nine rings; the elves could sense that Sauron was wearing the one ring and took theirs off. But i believe that the men could not/would not percieve this and continues wearing theirs because of the power the rings gave them. Eventually, they fell under the dominion of the One and were slaves of Sauron
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He came unto the timeless halls where shining fall the countless years and endless reigns the Elder King in Ilmarin on Mountain sheer
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