A 10th Nazgul? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

William Cloud Hicklin · 12-01-2007, 01:16 PM

Remember, Sauron could only control the Keepers of the Nine when he had the One- otherwise they would be free agents, outside his dominion. Sauron would have to have forced their Rings from them before the end of the Second Age, after they had been thoroughly 'wraithed.' In the Third Age he couldn't give them out again, because he would have no way of controlling the new Bearer.

One also wonders what would happen to one of the Nine if his Ring were given to someone else- would his link to it be broken? Would he die?

12-01-2007, 01:16 PM	#22
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Remember, Sauron could only control the Keepers of the Nine when he had the One- otherwise they would be free agents, outside his dominion. Sauron would have to have forced their Rings from them before the end of the Second Age, after they had been thoroughly 'wraithed.' In the Third Age he couldn't give them out again, because he would have no way of controlling the new Bearer. One also wonders what would happen to one of the Nine if his Ring were given to someone else- would his link to it be broken? Would he die? __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.