So wait, was the ring like a hocrux or whatever that gay shit in Harry Potter was called, why does Sauron insta dies when its destroyed...?
7 rings were made but sauron made his own 8th
>>219273342sauron was just a walking shadow without the ring's power to back him up
>Sauron is a giant physical humanoid>he has the ring>Gets defeated >Fast forward 1000 years>Sauron is an eyeball>WE CANT LET HIM GET THE RING, HE’LL BE UNSTOPPABLE!
>>219273342the movies brush over this but in the books Sauron is pretty much a fallen angle that just put a lot of his power in said ring, so when the ring is destroyed he also loses said power and thus is unable to maintain a physical body, he is still alive due to being angle like but unable to actually do shit so he is just a wandering spirit occasionally whispering mean shit at least until the ME version of the end of days comes
>>219274011>in the booksGo to /lit/, i should not have to read 80000 pages of barely comprehendible lore to enjoy a movie
>>219274011best part was when he went from right to 45, and then to 33
>>219273342pretty much
>>219273342And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
>>219273829I've always just assumed that the eyeball sauran needs the ring back to become physical again.
>>219273342What was Sauron's tax policy?
>>219273342>a hocrux or whatever that gay shit in Harry Potter was called>t.1st day of 6th grade and have to be a big kid now
>>219273342It's the "One-" or "Great-" Horcrux, anon. There are lesser horcruxes scattered about but they don't matter so much.
>>219276697if Eye Sauron goes outside does he have to be hosed down later because all the dust and grit outside naturally become stuck to him?
>>219276715Couldn't say, brah. I don't recall anything to indicate he used or attached value to currency.
>>219276773no the eye isn't physical. it's a ghost eye. the big humanoid thing would need the hose though.
>>219273342because some plucky young wizards showed true English grit by defeating him with the Dragonlance although their brave Warrow sidekick Tuck was blinded in the process
>>219276606>>219273342why did he need to put the power in the ring if he already had it in literally him???
>>219273829>it took the tag team of Gil-Galad and Elendil to wreck Sauron's physical form and they both died in the process>"Dude just do it again lmao"
>>219276834he was sick of being laughed at and compared to Andy Sixx every time he releaed his power anon
>>219276834Sauron is a spirit, he was anchored in Middle Earth by two things, his body and the ring.
>>219276797there's an unintentionally humorous passage from not long after Aragorn reaches Rohan with Legolas and Gimli in which Eomer complains that they have hardly any black horses left because Sauron's always stealing them
He put enough of his power into the ring that it acted like a phylactery and let him revive after he was killed. But that wasn’t his plan, that was just a side effect of him making the ring as strong as he could.
>>219276900>Sauron briefing his lieutenants on this, explaining that only black horses fit the aesthetic he's going for
>>219276834He wanted to give a bunch of magic rings out to important powerful people and then use his super ring to mind control them
>>219273829Middle Earth is dying, the Elves are on their way out, and Men are on their last legs. The forces that once defeated Sauron no longer exist.
Reminder that the protagonist of Lord of the Rings isn't Frodo, Sam, or Aragorn, but God himself: Eru Iluvatar."In the Lord of the Rings the conflict is not basically about 'freedom', though that is naturally involved. It is about God, and His sole right to divine honour. The Eldar and the Númenóreans believed in The One, the true God, and held worship of any other person an abomination. Sauron desired to be a God-King, and was held to this by his servants; if he had been victorious he would have demanded divine honour from all rational creatures and absolute temporal power over the whole world." - Letter 183
>Know that as long as the ring exists Sauron will inevitably return>Know that Mount Doom is the only place the ring can be destroyed>Ignore Mordor for a thousand years anyway and let Sauron move back into it
>>219277151so it's just a bible fanfic?
>>219277165It was full of evil orcs and nobody wanted to team up to clear it out.
>>219273342You guys wanna see my juicy boipucci?
>>219276834In LOTR lore, the magic of the world progressively goes away as time passes. The longer spirits remains in Middle-Earth, the more their power is siphoned out and they become wraiths, not unlike the Nazguls. Sauron puts his power in the Ring as a protection against this. As long as he have the Ring, he is as powerful as the day he made it, while everyone else in Middle-Earth is just getting weaker and weaker. The drawback is that when he loses the Ring it takes him thousands of years to do anything, and when the Ring is destroyed he loses so much of his power he becomes nothing more than a fart in the wind.This is also why elves, who are partly spirits are leaving. If they remain in Middle-Earth, they will eventually become phantoms, unable to be seen by the living (Arwen's eventual fate). The Rings of Powers (that Galadriel, Elrond and Gandalf have) is supposed to stall this process, which is why Rivendell and Lorien are havens for elves. But it's a bit of damn if you do damned if you don't situation.>If Sauron is defeated and the Ring destroyed, the powers of the lesser Rings (also made with Sauron's method) will also stop working, and the havens will cease to be (not literally but the magic will be gone)>If Sauron is not defeated then eventually 10 000 000 orcs will be at their doors
>>219274139yes you should
>>219277209why are you commenting this like not every single person on the planet knows this? You don't know this? FUCK I hate Gen alpha.
>>219277151the protagonist is the ring retard
>>219273342The ring literally contains part of his life force.>he poured his cruelty, his hatred, and his malice into making it
>>219277209Yeah, i tried to read the silmarishit but after a few pages i thought "why am i bothering to read this fanfic? I should be reading the Bible instead"
why did he pour his life work into a ring when he could just use his magical powers by using naruto hand signs?
>>219277968because I thought it was more obnoxious that way, and judging by your post it must have worked
>>219273829Whos left that could take on physical sauron on? Elrond and glorfindal? Galadriel and celebrimbor? Theres no good men left, Aragorn is a shadow of numenorean blood.
>>219277165Ring was lost after isuldur died until deagol found it. Then smeagol killed him and kept it to himself for however many years. Then bilbo found it but didnt tell anyone. Gandalf had to put some pieces together.
