That’s why every character who knows what they’re doing is terrified of the ring, because they ( or anyone who claimed the ring for themselves) could become the NEW Sauron and plunge the world into darkness, cruelty, and war in an attempt to make the world fit their goals. Sure, once upon a time there’d been a Satan analog dude conspiring to rule the world, looking to ensnare people with magic rings, but by the time of the book trilogy that dude was long gone and what was left behind was the power and evil he’d embodied looking for a new vessel.
To demonstrate my point, I’d like to highlight something that seems to have gotten lost in the 70 some years of broken inspiration telephone since LOTR was published: that Sauron wasn’t a GUY, he was an theme, a force that drove others into action and threatened to remake the world into his own image.
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