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So not only are all of those "greatest quotes" (as I like to call them) ambiguous, but also remember- greater does not mean more powerful (and "most powerful" is what the thread title says). Try finding more specific quotes than "so and so was the greatest". For instance, from the Sil-
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Sauron was greater, 'effectively', in the Second Age than Morgoth at the end of the First. Why? Because, though he was far smaller by natural stature, he had not yet fallen so low. Eventually he also squandred his power (of being) in the endeavour to gain controle of others.
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(my epmhasis)
And also the rest of the text implies that Morgoth had used so much of his powers in marring Arda that Sauron was greater than him at Sauron's height.
Not sure if you were refering to me, just in case. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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"Take no heed! We speak as is right, and as King Finwë himself did before he was led astray. We are his heirs by right and the elder house. Let them sá-sí, if they can speak no better."
-Son of the Therindë
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