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   It is repeated several times in The Silmarillion that the Valar could   
   not remove the Gift of Ilúvatar from Men.  So how is it that merely   
   possessing the One Ring, not necessarily wearing it, could postpone   
   the inevitable indefinitely.  The ring contained no power that was not   
   inherently Sauron's to begin with.  And he was only a Maia.   
      
   How is it that wearing one of the Nine could do the same.  It was   
   fashioned by Elves with presumably even less power.   
      
      
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