Last Alliance Scenario

mepbmlist
#1

How about the One Ring making Sauron immune to all offensive spells?

RD: thanks for the interest. I don’t think Harlequin would be able to

that - nor, really, would I want to. He’s going to be quite powerful enough

and the FP must stand a small chance of killing him!

Richard.

In a message dated 1/16/01 4:17:02 PM Central Standard Time,
devereux@lineone.net writes:

Gents: Secondly, in terms of Sauron’s “powers” recall this. At the end of
the “Return of the King” it is discussed that the Dark assault on Lorien
failed because the magical defenses were such that only if “Sauron himself”
arrived from Mordor could the magical defenses be broken.

I.E., Sauron can break defenses erected by the entire Sinda nation, over who
knows how long.

I’d say he’s an almost absurdly powerful character, who has a 2 on 1 210
weakness set up somehow. Not sure of the details?

Jonathan

#2

Isn’t this because Lorien’s defences were constructed with one of the Elven Rings and Sauron had the One Ring which could control it?

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Gents: Secondly, in terms of Sauron’s “powers” recall this. At the end of
the “Return of the King” it is discussed that the Dark assault on Lorien
failed because the magical defenses were such that only if “Sauron himself”
arrived from Mordor could the magical defenses be broken.

I.E., Sauron can break defenses erected by the entire Sinda nation, over who
knows how long.

I’d say he’s an almost absurdly powerful character, who has a 2 on 1 210
weakness set up somehow. Not sure of the details?

Jonathan

#3

From:
TONY A & JANETTE S

To: mepbmlist@egroups.com

Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:26 AM

Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Last Alliance Scenario

Isn’t this because Lorien’s defences were constructed with one of the Elven Rings and Sauron had the One Ring which could control it?

RD: No. Galadriel erected the defences of Lorien in the Second Age, after Sauron put on the One Ring, and the Elves became aware of him and removed their subordinate rings. After the One Ring was lost, Galadriel was able to use her ring Nenya to improve Lorien’s defences further.

Galadriel was a Noldo altho the people of Lorien were mostly Silvan and (just to confuse matters) spoke Sindarin. After the death of Gil-galad, Galadriel was the single most powerful elf in Middle-earth, so altho Sauron himself might have been able to breach the defences of Lorien, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion.

Rather than seeing Sauron as an ‘absurdly powerful character with a weakness,’ I see him as the single most powerful character BUT the top Elves and Dunedain were not that far behind, due to their association with the Valar (gods). This makes it quite logical that Sauron would fall to successive challenges from Gil-Galad, Elendil and Isildur, being victorious but wounded in the first two.

Richard.

Gents:  Secondly, in terms of Sauron's "powers" recall this.  At the end of
the "Return of the King" it is discussed that the Dark assault on Lorien
failed because the magical defenses were such that only if "Sauron himself"
arrived from Mordor could the magical defenses be broken.

I.E.,  Sauron can break defenses erected by the entire Sinda nation, over who
knows how long.

I'd say he's an almost absurdly powerful character, who has a 2 on 1 210
weakness set up somehow.  Not sure of the details?

Jonathan

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