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Gruesome Spectre
Join Date: Dec 2000
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All right. It's pretty well settled, to my mind, that if any of the Nazgûl had found the One Ring they would have returned it to Sauron.
They would have done so, regardless of whether Sauron physically held the Nine, because their wills were captive to the Nine, which in turn were in thrall to the One. However, what about the lesser servants of Sauron, specifically the Orcs? They served Sauron and usually followed his orders without question, but there were some indications their loyalty to him was far from perfect. Grishnákh of the Red Eye seemed to have an interest in the Ring that lay beyond simple attention to duty when Merry and Pippin gave out their hints about it. Quote:
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Both quotes are from TTT The Uruk-Hai Grishnákh was all business until he really considered the Ring. Then he apparently intended to turn his back on his fellows and do who knows what for his own ends. Quote:
'Master' there refers to Melkor, but that quote seems equally applicable to Sauron's troops in later ages. Quote:
That exchange between the Orc-captains Gorbag and Shagrat tells me the Orcs weren't all that thrilled with toiling under Sauron's thumb from birth to death. The question is this: if Orcs, be it just one, or a band of them, had actually held the One in their hands, would they have returned it to Sauron? Could they have done so, being already in the mind of evil and seemingly specially vulnerable to lust of it?
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