The Westward Road

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

So either the danger was in reaching the sea or Sauron had other resources. I am not sure the council anticipated the winged beasts but even so using them over water seems unlikely (though the thought of them landing on an elf ship as a Harrier does on the Ark Royal is quite funny).

Indeed. But if the ship was loaded with elf-lords of high power such as Glorfindel and the ship had Gandalf in it, I wonder if the nazgûl alone would have succeeded to take the ring. They could, of course, sink the ship, but that maybe wouldn't help their cause at all since the Ring'd be down in the bottom of the sea.

Did Sauron have vampires in his service in the Third Age? For if he had, he could have sent a nazgûl - vampire assault and that would have been a match even for a bunch of elf-lords.