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Maybe it was midchloroans 🤔

with the use of the prejoritive "forced" to put "most" of his power into it, and being "greatly" weakened by its loss I'll stick with the original rather than the retconn

After he's thought about it

Afterwards he says that

If pouring his power into the ring had no negative affect on Sauron, why the prejoritive "forced"

The author says Sauron was "forced" to pour much of his power into his ring to give it the power to dominate the others

Not to me

Authorial afterthoughts are not always consistent with the published work

He poured his power into it, and was greatly weakened by its loss

I disagree it's the only logical reading.

He says in LOTR ‘This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them all. This is the One Ring that he lost many ages ago, to the great weakening of his power.

Tolkien is again inconsistent.

@Adamant Tolkien is inconsistent here. For thousands of years Sauron was greatly weakened. His physical death after the Battle with Gil-Galad and Elendil took a lot longer to recover from than his physical death on the drowning of numenor. The biggest difference being at one point he had the ring and another he didn't.

@Adamant the act of making the ring actually diminished him. In a similar way to Melkor corrupting Arda and eventually being stuck in one form

@Adamant he was weakened without it.

@MishaRosnach sorry I don't follow random, uncommented links.

@MishaRosnach you may consider the misuse of language "stupid", personally I prefer our questions and answer to use the correct terminology.

@TylerH no, it isn't.

@MishaRosnach it is not a trilogy. The definition of trilogy is not three books or three works.

@Richard as a school governor of a Church of England primary school I can assure you other religious holidays are celebrated..

Ooh didn't know there were multiple rooms in chat for sci fi