[Sabin]

I doubt Tom Badbil would have resisted the ring, if given time and the possesion of it. It seemed that even in his disregard, he had a slight dislike of it.

Now, I wish to pose a question: How was the ring created, and from what matierial? I am fairly sure a dwarf was responsible for the forging of the original rings, with help from Sauron.

However, how did Sauron go about empowering his own ring? Surely, if he made it by himself, it would have been weaker.(He created it in secret)

Therefore, I have an idea as to how it was made.
First, he prepared the other rings for the coming of this new ring, by making their construction weak in certain areas, somewhat like a computer hacker's back doors and trojans.

Then, upon creating the new ring, he placed his own powers(derived from being a former servant of Morgoth) into the ring, to achieve two critical effects: To increase it's power, and to make it "bond" to him, like a sort of DNA test to determine the owner. This being accomplished, it only responded positively to it's real owner.

However, I suspect even then, it was it's own Ring. If the powers of it were derived from Morgoth, then it's real loyalty was to Morgoth, not Sauron, thus how it seemed to allow it's being taken by Isildur, and to eventually travel a great distance from Sauron.

But why take such a course of action?

[ February 19, 2004, 00:16: Message edited by: Sabin ]