July 5, 2003

Poll and Annatar's Comment
Warg

Tiniowien, I have seen FOTR more than twenty times. I have only seen TTT four times.

Annatar, I found your comment to be quite interesting about how Sauron was the wiser one. I happen to agree with you on that. It was by mere luck that the Ring was destroyed.

Which makes me wonder... If there had been someone equally as wise and cunning (like Sauron) on the good side of the story, how would the story have gone? How would the plans to destroy the Ring be different? (exclude Gandalf & the fact that he may have had some foresight into the "luck" factor actually working)

In my opinion this individual would have made some "Rings" of his own to counter the rings made by Sauron. Or perhaps made some orcs of his own to battle Sauron's orcs. I think the hobbits would still be bearing the One Ring, and sneaking into Mt. Doom, but I think a bigger effort would have been made to distract Sauron from the hobbits at their point of entry into Mordor.