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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:20:27 -0700 (PDT), Noel Q. von Schneiffel   
   wrote:   
   >   
   > On 3 Okt., 05:39, Morgoth's Curse    
   > wrote:   
   > > On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 18:52:39 -0400, Stan Brown   
   > >   
   > >  wrote:   
   > > >Or perhaps they did *want to destroy them, but no longer possessed   
   > > >the means to do so.  Weren't Celebrimbor's forges destroyed?   
   > >   
   > >         I suspect that only Celebrimbor knew how to destroy the rings   
   > > (short of actually tossing one into the Cracks of Doom.)   
   >   
   > The latter, however, would have been easily possible at least during   
   > the first 1.5 millennia of the Third Age, when Mordor was basically   
   > empty and secured by Gondorian strongholds.   
      
   True.  But at that point two of the Three were in use, and eventually   
   the third as well.  In those days, could the Elves have foretold that   
   Sauron would rise again, and if so would they have destroyed the   
   Three against such a possibility?  I don't know about the first, but   
   I seriously doubt the second.   
      
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