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Originally Posted by Farael
I also doubt that they would have been able to rule over orcs and trolls and Nazghul.
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Well, Tolkien does admit this as a possibility when he speculates in the letters about a possible confrontation at Mount Doom between Frodo and the nazgul, if the ring was not destroyed
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Originally Posted by Letter #246
He needed time, much time, before he could control the Ring or (which in such a case is the same) before it could control him; before his will and arrogance could grow to a stature in which he could dominate other major hostile wills. Even so for a long time his acts and commands would still have to seem 'good' to him, to be for the benefit of others beside himself.
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