If he had recovered the One Ring, he wouldn't have been able to use the Three for his own purposes, but the minds of their bearers would have been laid bare before him. He would have been able to know whatever their Bearers were thinking, which is in itself, worse than death.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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