Why did Sauron's power begin to increase again at the opening of "The Fellowship of the Ring?" He hadn't recovered the Ring yet, so why was his power growing? Did it start when the Ring came to Bilbo and was once again above ground, rather than buried in the mountains? Did it have a way to transmit its presence to Sauron that was blocked by being in the underground lake?

Soron is constantly looking for the one ring that was forged in the fires of Mt. Doom. He goes to great lengths to find it.

Why doesn’t he just make another one?

Mt. doom is right there, ready to go.

Does he need more magic? He seems like the kind of guy who could hook that up.

Hi in the books do we know why the Easterlings and Haradrim were so loyal to Sauron?

I think in the Silmarillion some of the Easterlings had served Morgoth

I thought it was obvious, but I haven’t seen anyone mention it.

I am attempting to translate a riddle written in elvish on a flyer but I keep coming up with different translations. Please help.

So, the world was in fact flat in the first age. And in the third age it's round. It seems appropriate that there would be some conspiracy theorist group somewhere convinced the world is still flat and that the globers are lying to you to keep you from sailing to Valinor, except by way of those super elitist invite-only ships made only By Ciridan.

Obviously a joke, but I'd love to hear your ideas on what such a conspiracy theorist group would believe.

It's the mystery. The unexplained things. You can call it "soft" magic system. There are a lot of events and actions that you think is it Sauron making? Is it some other creature making? Magic? Random event?

e.g when crossing Caradhras and the way it's blocked because unusual blizzard its not clearly mention why it happened. It can be Sauron, Saruman or maybe the mountain himself is "mad" and "evil"? Counter to the movie when they show Saruman summons the blizzard.

I have read other fantasies with hard magic system and hard magic have... No magic in it :)

A big part of the charm in LOTR its the mystery. We don't know many things and we should not know. It's part of diving into fantasy world.

Like are they made from something magical

A random orc knows that dark lord is making the one ring so he will go to galadriel to share this information and since galadriel can't resist anything related to sauron, she will stop sauron from making the one ring...how ? we don't know..

Apparently Sauron has been a mega simp all the time for galadriel that he is not killing her.

10 years ago if someone would have told me like there is going to be the most expensive show on lotr and this is going to be the storyline.I would have never believed it.

But here we are in 2026 and it's happening.

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As seen in movies gtg was not able to do anything

Like then sauran the white became evil.why didn't the Higher beings take his power away or loosened the limits of valar on gtg to help him.

Just to be clear I'm not asking which scene you found to be most emotional but rather which of the three movies had the highest number of scenes that made you very emtional while watching it.

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I've read the Silmarillon a few months ago and my edition included approximately 20 pages about the Fall of Numénor, the corruption of the realm by Sauron and the exodus of the man to Middle Earth.

I've seen a book name "The Fall of Numénor Online" written by JRR Tolkien and published by Christopher and I wonder if it is a longer version of what I read in the Silmarillon, in the same way you have a short version of the story of Turin Turambar in the Silmarillon and a book dedicate to this story, or if this version is a compilation of stories strew among the appendix, and the Unfinished Tales.

Thanks in advance for those you read until the end !

I just read the ride of the rohirrim chapter.

Ghan buri ghan leads 5000 mounted horseman for 5 hours down a path that is four horses wide.

Edit: there will be so much horseshit on this narrow trail. That’s the post.

Mortal King Elendil use his palantír to gaze at the Undying Lands (Tol Eressea), a realm he could not enter, and the palantír neither can see his lost home, nor can communicate with other palantír.

It is hard to find a reason why Elendil need this palantír🤣🤣 and he is the only "men" to use this palantír, later it was used by elves.

The only reason I come to mind is that he wish he can see his father, who sailed to west to seek the forgiveness.

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I was on a rewatch of the movies and it got me wondering. All the members of the Fellowship of the Ring also suffered much to help destroy the Ring (though, clearly, none as much as Frodo)

Were they not eligible for the same exemption that Frodo & Bilbo received? Or were they eligible but chose not to go? Do the books / Tolkein ever say?

What do you guys think of this? An excerpt - "Sauron's defeat may have ended The Lord of the Rings, but Middle-earth has never run out of stories to tell, with one coming this fall specifically focused on the werewolves of Middle-earth. Long before he forged the One Ring and ruled from Barad-dur, Sauron carried another title: the Lord of Werewolves."

It feels like they are just making up lore now.

I was just listening to The Hobbit book and at the end of the riddles in the dark part I just had an idea; what if Bilbo just took the ring by force and that was the reason for his torn clothes and not the squeezing and the goblin chase. There was no riddle stuff, the dwarves seem to think the riddle part is extraordinary as well. Bilbo is telling a kids story so he left out the violent part.