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   From: zip@nowhere.never   
      
   "Stan Brown"  wrote...   
      
   > A slightly different way to look at it: compelling Isildur to destroy   
   > the Ring is physically impossible. They would really have to take it   
   > from him by force (which they could have done) and then destroy it.   
   > But someone who takes the Ring by force from someone else isn't going   
   > to destroy it; he's going to try to keep it.   
      
   It is the fear of this which stays them. I can see that.   
      
   -Paul.   
      
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