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Sauron's plan was not completely successful ; for the Elves hid their rings and did not use them while Sauron held the One, and the Dwarves ' rings did not respond to the One's control as Sauron expected.
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Sauron's plan fails, however: the Elves discover his plot and discard their Rings until they could be shielded from his influence.
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Saruman was chosen instead, as being most knowledgeable about Sauron's work in the Second Age.
Saruman, however, reassured the Council that Sauron's evident effort to find the One Ring ( a necessary component of his resurgence ) would fail, as the Ring would long since have been carried by the river Anduin to the Sea ; and the matter was allowed to rest.
But Gandalf rejected Mordor's terms of surrender, and the forces of the West faced the full might of Sauron's armies, until the Ring was destroyed in Orodruin.
During the War of the Ring, Dale was overrun by Sauron's Northern army, and many dwarves and men took refuge in Erebor which was promptly surrounded.
Dáin was succeeded by his son Thorin III Stonehelm, who along with King Bard II withstood the siege and later routed Sauron's forces.
As told in " The Quest of Erebor ", Gandalf states that the restoration of the dwarven kingdom of Erebor would later prove to be a bulwark against Sauron's Northern allies, even as the main thrust was against Gondor, which otherwise could have done great harm in Arnor and The Shire.
It was Sauron's design to control all these rings and their bearers through the One Ring, forged in secret for this purpose, but only the Nine succumbed completely to its power and its seduction:
To the north-west of the kingdom originally lay the realm of Arnor ; to the north, Gondor was neighboured by the Wilderland and, after its settlement, by Rohan ; to the north-east, by the land of Rhûn ; to the east, by Sauron's realm of Mordor ; to the south, by the deserts of Harad.
From that time, Ithilien was kept free from Sauron's servants only by the Rangers, who maintained secret refuges such as Henneth Annûn.
Ilmandur was discarded at once, but the fate of others remained fluid for some time ; Christopher Tolkien assumed that at first it was the son of Isildur that should have inherited the kingship, but was refused the entry into his city due to Sauron's machinations and went to the north.
Rivendell was founded in Second Age 1697 when a force sent by Gil-galad from Lindon and led by Elrond rescued the refugees of Eregion from Sauron's army and was driven into the hills of Rhudaur.
The basis of the rumour was that Sauron's Orcs stole many of Rohan's black horses during raids, thus making black horses rare ; however, this was theft, which angered the people of Rohan.
Their lives were extended indefinitely by the rings, and they became Sauron's chief servants, especially during the first part of the Third Age when he was too weak to act on his own behalf.
However, it is unclear if Pippin's compulsion to use the Orthanc-stone was imparted by the stone itself, or if it was a result of Sauron's influence over it.
When Minas Ithil fell to the Nazgûl in, the Ithil-Stone came into Sauron's hands, and leading up to the War of the Ring was kept by him in Barad-dûr.
Sauron was led to believe that the One Ring had fallen into the hands of Aragorn or some other Western leader, and this was partly responsible for Sauron's hasty assault against Gondor.
Sauron's attack, before he was fully ready, deeply influenced the outcome of the war.
Sauron's and completely
Barad-dûr was besieged for seven years by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men and was levelled after Sauron's defeat at the end of the Second Age, but because it was created using the power of the One Ring, its foundations could not be destroyed completely unless the Ring itself was destroyed.
Sauron's and successful
Boromir led many successful forays against Sauron's forces, prior to his journey north to Rivendell, which brought him great esteem in his father Denethor's eyes.
Sauron's and ;
The Three were made by Celebrimbor himself without Sauron's assistance ; they remained unsullied by his touch.
The building took six hundred years to complete ; it was the greatest fortress ever built since the Fall of Angband, and much of Sauron's personal power went into it.
The Dead, invincible and unstoppable, annihilate Sauron's forces ; in the book, as well as being absent from the battle, their ability to inflict physical harm is left vague and their ability to inspire fear is emphasized instead.
The Elves of Lothlórien and Mirkwood do withstand assaults by Sauron's armies ; but these battles occur off stage.
* 1700-Minastir sends a great navy to Lindon ; Sauron defeated ; Sauron's forces retreat from Eriador and the coasts
* 3434-The Last Alliance crosses the Misty Mountains ; Sauron's forces are defeated in the Battle of Dagorlad ; Siege of Barad-dûr begins
* 3441-Elendil and Gil-galad face Sauron in hand to hand combat, but they themselves perish ; Isildur takes the shards of his father's sword Narsil and cuts the One Ring from Sauron's finger.
Ciryatur's forces stopped Sauron's army at the river Gwathló ; reinforcements from Lindon and Tharbad helped defeat Sauron at the Battle of Gwathló.
These Rings of Power were free of Sauron's influence, as he did not have a hand in their making ; however they were still forged by Celebrimbor with the arts taught to him by Sauron and thus were still bound to the One Ring.
Werewolves are briefly mentioned by Gandalf the Grey in The Fellowship of the Ring, who tells Frodo Baggins that " not all of Sauron's servants and chattels are wraiths ; there are Orcs and Trolls, there are Wargs and werewolves.
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Reasons for this trek are unknown, but they possibly had to do with Sauron's growing power in nearby Greenwood, which later became known as Mirkwood as a result of the shadow that fell upon it during Sauron's search of the forest for the One Ring.
These were in addition to the three Celebrimbor forged, untainted by Sauron's evil, for the Elves.
Sauron's forces subsequently laid siege to the refuge for three years until a relief army sent by Gil-galad attacked the besieging force in conjunction with the defenders and annihilated it.
Sauron's messenger attempted to bribe the Dwarves of Erebor for news of Bilbo ( the last known bearer of the One ) with the promise of the return of the remaining three of the Seven.
For instance, Denethor saw a black fleet of apparent reinforcements for Sauron's forces coming from supposedly safe territory, unaware that the ships were actually carrying Aragorn's forces coming to relieve the city.
In the book the revelation was the primary factor for Sauron's assault on Minas Tirith before he had fully readied his forces.
Sauron encourages the Númenóreans to cast aside their traditional reverence for Eru Ilúvatar and to take up the worship of Melkor, or Morgoth, Sauron's former master, and make human sacrifices to him.
But secretly, without Sauron's knowledge, Celebrimbor also forged Three Rings for the Elves, the greatest and fairest of the Rings of Power.
He refused to collaborate with Sauron, Morgoth's servant, in making the Three Rings, which were the greatest Rings except for Sauron's One and which Celebrimbor forged alone in secret.
It was clear the " S " stood for Saruman, considering Sauron's general desire not to have his name written or spoken.
In 2953, taking advantage of Sauron's return and the resulting distraction of the Stewards, Saruman took Isengard for himself and became Lord of Isengard.
In preparation for Sauron's return, the Ringwraiths laid siege to Minas Ithil in 2000, and they took the city for their dark master two years later.
During the War of the Ring, Minas Morgul continued to act as the base of operations for the Witch-king and was a major garrison and forward base for Sauron's forces.
Even Sauron's Orcs had to rely on using Common Speech ( albeit in a much-debased form ) for communication between themselves, because different Orc sub-dialects change so haphazardly that they are not mutually intelligible from one clan to the next.
If it refers to Sauron's most recent return to Mordor, the Mouth of Sauron would have served Sauron for some 68 years when he encountered Aragorn and Gandalf.
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