more than 9?

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by alatar

Much agreed, but wasn't sure how else to explain my thoughts regarding the Nine. The One is truly a being in itself. Not sure of the right word (it'll come to me sometime after I'm away from my computer), but is not the One Ring a 'little Sauron,' or id?

This is an interesting concept, that the will Sauron put into the Ring was what we might call his [i]id[/b] rather than his ego. How far could we push this? Can we characterise Sauron's psychology in this way? I mean, can we differentiate different aspects of him this way? Do we know him well enough?