So why did Sauron collapse when the ring was destroyed? Surely it wouldnt affect him, he just couldnt get his old strength back?
bored of the rings is cheap trash. I mean, Goddam???, come on, they could have tried harder than that surely?
Sauron had to invested so much of his own power into the ring for it to be able to control the other rings that when it was destroyed, that power was lost.
Farmer Giles of Ham had a blunderbuss, but there is no indication that he is meant to be in Middle Earth.
Just because he doesn’t physically posess the ring doesn’t mean there’s not an intense connection. Sauron’s very being was used to create that thing, so now he cannot exist without it being intact. The mistake made by Isildur, of course, was to allow it to exist, which essentially is allowing Sauron to continue existing, even if temporarily weakened.
Putting his power into the ring was a two edged sword: on the one hand, it made him more powerful and bound him to a near-indestructible object, thus making it very very tricky to actually get rid of him. On the other hand, it ended up making him very vulnerable to separation from the ring or it’s eventual destruction.
Calling him “Goddam” absolutely was not a cheap joke.
And don’t call me “Shirley”!
Howzabout you come up with a better one, bub, so we can critique it?
A lot of BOTR is hilarious, some is weak, but it ain’t bad for a couple of recent college grads who admitted they were just trying to make a few bucks by ripping off a best seller.