Invisibility
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Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth...They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men...
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Rereading this passage the words could walk, if they would, caught my attention. Does this mean that the power of invisibility that the 9 rings conferred was controllable by the bearers of the rings? In addition I had always thought that the 7 dwarven ring conferred invisibility as well, but upon searching for textual evidence I discovered that I could not find any. I know that the power of invisibility was something conceived of by Sauron, and that the 3 elven rings did not confer the power of invisibility. Anyone have any definite information about the 7 dwarven rings conferring invisibility?
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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