Shadowlander wrote:I read the Sil only once and spent most of that time wishing I'd written footnotes as I read
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You should indeed have written notes - and even more, you should have drawn a family tree. To know which Elf is parent, child, sibling, uncle/aunt, nephew/niece or cousin to which of the others, really takes a good tree - or, as in my case, some years of fan fiction RPGing
(The Fin...-named Elves - like Finwe, Fingolfin, Finarfin, Fingon, Finrod - are the most prominent - and confusing - examples
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But I thought Sauron crafted the One Ring after all of the others had been made...right? So how would its destruction result in the deactivation of the others powers? I know this seems like a rather silly question to ask, but I was just curious.
I assume that Sauron knew all along that he would make a Master Ring, and that part of his Ring-lore was to make the other rings vulnerable to what was to come - even those other rings (of the Elves) that were only made with his lore, not with his direct involvement. In the Dwarves' and the Men's rings, his own power was directly involved.
The power of the One Ring was parts of Sauron's own power which he somehow managed to transfer into it, so I would think this is why the powers of all the rings (and Sauron's remaining powers) were connected and would fail when the Master Ring failed.