: : Gandalf

: You're missing the point. The Silmarils did not fade with Feanor's death, BUT, if he had allowed the Valar to use them to resurrect the Trees, (destroying them in the process) he could not have created new ones.

: It was not the downfall of Sauron that caused the Three to fade, but the destruction of the One. Sauron used a great deal of his power to tie the Three, the Seven, and the Nine to the One. The destruction of the One caused Sauron's downfall, as well as the downfall of anything connected to it. New Rings could not be made for the same reason that new Silmarils could not be made.

The Elves are swimming at the Middle-Earth water resort. Their arms are getting tired and eventually the'll have to leave or drown. They don't like the idea, and Celebrimbor wants to find a way by which they could go on swimming indefinitely. Sauron comes up and instructs him on how to make air mattresses, and shows how they can be filled from an air tank beside the water. Celebrimbor doesn't know how to make a valve, so the mattresses have to remain connected to the air tank by long rubber tubes. Sauron then makes a big mattress for himself, lets the remaining air into that one and reconnects the tubes to his own mattress. Now he can control where the elves are floating by pulling on the tubes...
Now if someone comes and punctures Sauron's big mattress, all the air will flow out of it, and also out of the elves' mattresses because they are connected to the One.

-Foradan :)