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   From: joedoe3@gmail.com   
      
   Steve Morrison schrieb am 04/04/2012 08:56 PM:   
   > On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:38:13 +0000, Dan C wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:23:45 -0400, Chris Hoelscher wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> at the Council of Elrond. Elrond (and others) refused to reveal the   
   >>> possessors The Three. WHY? At this same meeting they openly discussed   
   >>> the possessor of The One and its intended disposition - much more   
   >>> "dangerous" information to be made public (within the council   
   >>> attendees, that is) - so if the attendees could be trusted with intel   
   >>> on The One, why not on The Three? (or is/was there another reason for   
   >>> withholding the information?)   
   >>   
   >> Simple.  It's a basic security fundamental.  The fewer people who know   
   >> about something, the more secure that knowledge is.  Why tell people who   
   >> don't need to know?  That information was completely irrelevant to the   
   >> matters at hand during the Council of Elrond.   
   >   
   > Yes. I've always assumed that they /had/ to discuss the One, because   
   > what to do with it was largely what the Council was about! But there   
   > was no need to discuss the whereabouts of the Three.   
      
   moreover, the Three might still have a use independent of the fate of   
   the One Ring:   
   (a) it was not *known* that they would lose their power if the One was   
   destroyed (and I do not think that the keepers of the Three would have   
   revealed their identity if the rings still had power after the   
   destruction of the One)   
   (b) in the case that the One was regained by Sauron and then lost again,   
   keeping the Three secret might allow to have them available once Sauron   
   was defeated (by whatever means that might have been done).   
      
   But I think if more info about the Three had been important for the task   
   at hand, it would have been provided at the Council.   
      
      
   regards   
    Geza   
      
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