Yoda(AotC) vs... Sauron

[phongn]

Yoda seizes the One Ring and seizes dominion over it, thus becoming Evil. He then returns and crushes both Vader and Palpatine

[Admiral Valdemar]

Yoda seizes the One Ring and seizes dominion over it, thus becoming Evil. He then returns and crushes both Vader and Palpatine

Pimpin' bitch. Those words came into my mind upon reading that.

[Guest]

Yet Sauron wasn't fighting the entire army AND Gil-Galad and Elendil like he was in the movie. It was a duel of champions. Sauron on the Mordor side, Elendil on the Man side, and Gil-Galad for the Elves. Elrond makes a point in mentioning this somewhere, saying "Only Isildur stood behind his father, as Cirdan and I with Gil-Galad" or something similar.

Ah. In The Silmarillion, the whole fight is pretty much covered with one sentence that could be interpreted either way. I don't remember it being mentioned in LotR, though.

[BlackWarMewtwo]

In the book it was the heat.

Where in the book was it said that it was the heat?
I can't remeber sucha passage.

It was only implied: Gandalf said that it had been speculated that dragonfire could destroy a Ring of Power, but that not even Ancalagon the Black (the most powerful dragon ever) could have destroyed Sauron's One Ring. But of course, you could also say that dragonfire is inherently magical.

Actually, it's not just speculation about dragons destroying most rings of power, didn't they destroy at least 2 dwarf rings?

[Guest]

Actually, it's not just speculation about dragons destroying most rings of power, didn't they destroy at least 2 dwarf rings?

IIRC, it was assumed that the ones Sauron did not recover were either lost or destroyed by dragonfire. However, the way Gandalf put it in that particular context, was that he didn't have first hand knowledge of the matter.

[phongn]

Yoda seizes the One Ring and seizes dominion over it, thus becoming Evil. He then returns and crushes both Vader and Palpatine

Pimpin' bitch. Those words came into my mind upon reading that.

Then he discovers teh Magic Pimpin' Shoes that Gandalf somehow missed

[Andrew J.]

BTW.. the One Ring can only be destroyed by the Fires of Mt. Doom because THAT is where it was created.

Maybe...maybe not. Mt. Doom is the hottest place in Middle Earth, and it's not totally inconceivable that its heat is the only special property it has that allows it to be able to unmake the Ring.