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   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   Another point brought up by this is that we are told Sauron's power   
   was growing, particularly in the last year of the War of the Ring.   
   I've always understood this to include his mental power, as well just   
   brute military and economic power.   
   One has to ask, why? Is it just the Power of Positive Thinking?   
      
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