Posted: November 25, 1998 at 20:45:47: by Michael Martinez
: Tolkien said that Sauron invested a large amount of his native
: strength in the Ring. This raises a question, was Sauron an
: appreciably stronger being after the Ring was made, or was it
: just a tool to enable him to gain his objectives more easily?
: In other words did the Ring magnify his power or just focus it?
: I would tend to think the latter. Tolkien wrote that the One Ring actually made Sauron stronger. It did indeed magnify Sauron's power by externalizing it. : One of the things which distinguishes Sauron from Morgoth, to
: me, is that Sauron is much more interested in dominating and
: controlling others than Morgoth. Morgoth seems to be a
: petulant child writ large, his main motives are to destroy or
: pervert the works of others, especially those of Eru. [snip] I believe that Tolkien compared them similarly. Morgoth tended to start the big projects, or perhaps conceived of them, but it was usually Sauron who carried them out. Nonetheless, Morgoth's capacity for dominating the wills of others, at least before he had diffused most of his strength throughout Arda, was considerably greater than Sauron's.
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The Fairy Tales of J.R.R. Tolkien
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