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I read that recently, too. I find it hard to understand how that could destroy Sauron, though - would Gandalf sort of channel the Ring's power into himself and thus a huge part of Sauron's power would be sucked away from him and engulfed? I know these are Tolkien's own words; I'm just trying to work out for myself how it would work.
It was terribly risky for Sauron to make the One Ring, especially at a time when there was far more resistence to him, and far more powerful Elves still in Middle-earth. Could an Elf such as Glorfindel do what Tolkien said Gandalf would have done? I guess not, because an Elf is not a Maia. But a Maia could still be sent to Middle-earth - indeed, five of them were.
The fact that Sauron made open war on his enemies was also very risky - the West already had the Ring. Gandalf could have challenged him at the Morannon, instead of sending the Ring to be destroyed. Did Sauron simply believe, in his arrogance, that he would win in any such combat?
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