The Sauron Strategies: One War to Win Them All, Except... - Page 11
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How devastating must the realization have been to Sauron, when Frodo claimed the Ring from within the chamber of the Sammath Naur, that he, the master manipulator, had been played for a fool. All his careful planning and maneuvering for two thousand years had been for nothing. Massive force, overwhelming power, and the most subtle strategies were all undermined by Sauron's complete misinterpretation of the facts he had gathered. He believed his enemies would seek to become like him. Had he understood that they would simply wish to be rid of him and all Dark Lords forever, he might have become more defensive. In such a world, Sauron would have been stalemated for a time. He would still have to fear that someone might seize the Ring and use it against him. But he would also have to fear that someone might succeed in destroying it. He would have had to devise a new strategy. It should not be doubted that he would have done so, and that the Council of Elrond rightly concluded that they had one and only one opportunity to defeat Sauron.
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