July 7, 2003

Purely Impossible, Warg
Anteru

Sorry to shoot you down like this, Warg, but your speculation almost made me die laughing. First of all, I do agree with you and Annatar that Sauron was wiser. Wiser, but more apprehensive perhaps. Second, to have a character on "the good side of the story" equal to Sauron's wisdom and might makes an interesting plot twist. However, to create rings that would be even near the power of the One, they would need to be created by "cruelty, malice, and the will to dominate all life." Those are not the characteristics of one so righteous as to be on the good side. And last, Sauron's equal on the good side would not and could not create orcs. To create orcs...create is too strong a word, for they are not a creation, merely a deformity; to form orcs would require a power greater than that of Sauron. It would require the power of a Vala; the power of Morgoth, who is now forever lost in the Void. Sauron is a Maia, an underling of sorts of the Valar. He did not create orcs, he spawned them. Second point to the third section of this argument: orcs, as everyone knows, were once elves that had been mutilated and deformed by Morgoth. To form these creatures requires, again, a will of pure evil. To control them requires a will of pure evil. Sorry for shooting you down, but next time, think out your ideas a little more before posting them.