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Let's see. He could corrupt any person by letting them wear the Ring! Turn them into evil, nasty, horrible tyrants...who would immediately turn on him and defeat him! So, not a good idea to let someone else wear that puppy.
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Nobody else could do that except for possibly Gandalf. If anybody else claimed the Ring they would have to fight Sauron for the title of Dark Lord. And nobody, except maybe Gandalf, had even a prayer of a chance of winning that encounter. The Ring was Sauron's, and the Ring was always trying to get back to him. Once Sauron was personally confronted by the upstart the Ring might just rip off the hand of the pretender and fly right back onto the finger of Sauron, where it belonged. Letter 246 has a number of interesting things to say about this issue.
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off the top of my head, i remember it said in lotr that sauron also needed the one for him to take physical form in the world once more (or something to that effect).
I agree with those who say that once Sauron regained the ring he would be able to take physical form and to defeat the elven strongholds.
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He already had a physical form. Note Gollum's "he has only four on the Black Hand but they are enough" comment. Gollum was the only one of the main characters that had been in the presence of Sauron (recently) so we have to take his word for it. It also says he does in Letter 246.
[ February 08, 2003: Message edited by: Kuruharan ]