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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:15:08 -0500, Morgoth's Curse   
    wrote:   
   >   
   > We know that four of the Seven were destroyed by dragons who attacked   
   > the Dwarves and plundered their hoards.  Is there any evidence in any   
   > of Tolkien's legendarium that Sauron could sense or detect it when a   
   > Ring of Power was destroyed?  (I except the obvious example of the   
   > Ruling Ring.)   
      
   I don't know of any such evidence, but Troels and others have a more   
   extensive acquaintance with HoME than I do.   
      
   Arguing _against_ Sauron's awareness is that the destruction of Rings   
   probably happened while he was in his coma state after having being   
   "cast down" by Elendil and Gil-Galad. He didn't "take shape" again   
   for two thousand years after that.   
      
   The three or four Rings that were destroyed were apparently eaten by   
   dragons. (Given that the One Ring caused a volcano to erupt, it's   
   surprising that the dragons weren't killed by their meal, but Gandalf   
   doesn't mention that.) I don't think we have any chronology for that,   
   but my impression has always been that it happened a long time before   
   Gandalf's conversation with Frodo in "The Shadow of the Past". But   
   how long ago?   
      
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