July 13, 2002

Re: Now That You Mention It
Kalimac the Green

Heres what I've come up with... The ring only turns its wearer invisible, because its a magic ring, and doesn't follow any of our physical laws. If it did, and turned everthing the wearer touches invisible as well, it would start a huge chain reaction, and end up turning the whole world invisible (a lot of good that would do). Also, if I recall correctly, the rings of power were Sauron's idea to begin with (please correct me if I'm wrong, it should be in the Silmarillion). He had something to do with their creation, I'm sure of that. So, he knew how they were made, and created his master ring. The elves didn't become wraiths, because they didn't trust him, and hid their rings. I'm not sure about the dwarves though... they stike me as being the sort of people who would just keep the rings to look at, like their other treasure. What do you think?