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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
This is only what the characters themselves thought. Boromir and Sam also thought the exact same thing at one point or another, yet I don’t hear anybody clamoring for their induction into the Hall of Potential Successful Challengers to Sauron. If the Ring was capable of deluding Boromir and Sam, why can’t it be capable of similarly deluding Elrond, Gandalf, and Galadriel? I think the temptation for them would be even more extreme (hence their distress).
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Boromir & Sam cannot be likened to the loremasters in this manner, as they do not have a great power of their own, & are not strong willed enough. And I believe that what Elrond said, that by using the arts of the enemy one of great power could ''overthrow'' (& not just challenge) Sauron & take his seat on his throne to become yet another Dark Lord is not just a mere thought or prediction, it is the truth. Elrond afterall is greatest of all the loremasters, & is telling it as it really is - the Ring is a threat to the Wise as they may seek to use the Ring to overthrow Sauron & become new darklords themselves, which is Sauron's worst fear (hence the power of Mordor falling on Minas Tirith like a storm for this very reason, as told by Gandalf in the White Rider).
Sauron knows (& he should do - he is the lord of the Ring afterall!), therefore, that he CAN be overthrown by a power such as Gandalf if the Ring is used against him, or otherwise Tolkein is not making much sense in his works & is contradicting himself to an extent - maybe a case of Tolkien juggling with his own ideas but not being explicit enough about them perhaps (hence this debate!). I believe the former to be the case, however, although I would not put Aragorn in the category - why could he be able to wield the Ring if Isildur could not? He has no great power of his own or the knowhow to be able to unlock the power of the Ring as far as I am concerned (& I bet someone will try & qoute this & comment on it with something like ''you are just stating your thoughts'' - the answer to that is, well so are you because you are only stating YOUR interpretations of the book & the Letters!!!).
This thread was about whether Saruman was for or against Sauron. It seems that in the end there was no friendship between them, only a link to see what each other was up to, & how one could get information out of each other to achieve the same goal. I am a little suprised that Sauron even bothered with Saruman, as I would have thought he would have been too proud & ignorant, having great power & resources of destruction at his disposal. It just shows that Sauron was a legend in playing mind games to control the will of others.