Thread by @CountDankulaTV

One thing I have just realised from LOTR is that it's all centred around "the one ring to rule them all" like it was the ultimate superweapon that would end the world, when in reality the "One Ring" plan was a complete utter fuck up on Saurons part.

Let me explain.

Sauron is appearing as an elf and all the other elves etc don't know he is Sauron, he is using an alias.

He teaches the elves (Celebrimbor being one) how to make rings of power, so they start making them , Sauron joins in making them, but adds a touch of his own dark magic.

He then joins in making the main rings we hear about, 3 for the elven kings/queens, 7 for the dwarf kings and 9 for the human kings.

He adds his own dark magic to them so that he can influence whoever is wearing these rings. These rings are gifted to the intended recipients.

The elves manage to figure out he is Sauron so he bails to Mordor. But all the wearers of the rings are still wearing the rings he made since they have no idea he has placed his dark magic into them.

He then starts the final stage of his plan to make the One Ring.

But in order for him to make a ring that powerful he has to put every single bit of his power, his soul, absolutely everything, into the One Ring.

Now that the ring is on his finger he starts using his powers to influence the other wearers.

This is where it gets funny.

As soon as Sauron tries to use the One Ring to influence and corrupt the elves, they sensed him right away and just immediately took the rings off. Like seriously just went "oh fuck that" and just...took the rings off. So that was that part of his plan totally fucked already.

The dwarves Sauron only influenced a little bit, the problem was dwarves are greedy and absolutely obsessed with gold/treasure/jewels etc and their obsession was so strong that not even Saurons influence could really steer them away from that.

So that also completely failed.

He did get the 9 human kings though, and managed to corrupt them so much that they turned into the ringwraiths. So it wasn't exactly the "one ring to rule them all" as much as it was "the one ring to rule these 9 dudes".

The problem was, since Sauron poured absolutely everything of himself into the ring, he needed it to actually have any power, it was like a battery pack for him, unplug it and the machine dies.

It's why he died instantly when Isildur cut the ring off his finger.

So when the main LOTR story is happening Sauron doesn't have a physical form at all and can only use magic to influence orcs etc into doing his bidding, he literally can't do anything above that without the ring he made for his totally failed plan.

Then the ring gets thrown into Mt Doom and boom bye bye Sauron.

If Sauron didn't do any of this, and just kept his physical form, he could actually have won, but instead he basically gave himself a massive weak spot like a video game boss. All for a plan that didn't even work.

All that happened as a result of his plan was he made himself weaker and gained control of 9 screaming emos who are scared of fire.

Technically Sauron defeated Sauron through his own stupidity don't @ me.

When you have to get up at 8am to feed the baby you think about this kind of stuff.