Sauron, or the One Ring?

[Kalimac]

When you say choose between Sauron or the Ring, you do mean choose which one to destroy, is that right? Sorry to be slow, but it seemed a little ambiguous [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

I always thought of the Ring as being sort of like Sauron's heart, or soul (not that you could really accuse him of having either a soul or a heart, but you know what I mean). Except that in this case he voluntarily created this object which would give him more concentrated power, presumably knowing the risks that this entailed. And once he had done this, while it's hard to tell which was more powerful (since the heart cannot live without the body, nor the body without the heart) I'd choose to destroy the Ring if I had to pick. On the principle of striking the one killing blow instead of having to strike a lot of small blows.

Hope that made sense!