Thank you, lindil. Particularly as it owed a lot to your review of JRRT's Osanwe-Kenta, for which I thank you very much. Now that I've got that theory out of my system (mostly), I'll try to address your question about Galadriel knowing the mind of Sauron-- wouldn't the protection of 'unwill' apply to Sauron as well? Then she could not force her way into Sauron's mind, and why would Sauron willingly allow her access-- he couldn't have hoped to corrupt her, could he?
Nevertheless, I tend to think it was Osanwe, because of the way she talks about it: 'I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the elves.'
I suppose Sauron's sending out his dominating consciousness into all his servants and questing to know her mind and the minds of others wrecked his 'unwill' defenses. His charge laid him open to her flanking attack, mentally speaking.
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