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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (11 children)

If you read the books, a lot of people thought Sauron wasn't ever getting the One back because they were convinced it must've been swept out to sea.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    I wouldn't put it past the ring to manipulate some octopus to carry it back to land.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (9 children)

    Have the dwarves cast in into a huge lump of steel a dump it way out in the ocean.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Fifth-age Mordorian Nazis would scour the ocean floor for it in their submersibles until they find it.

    At that point no one in Middle Earth would still even believe in the One Ring, if any had even heard of it outside of fairy tales told to children.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not big on lotr lore. My Atlas of Middle Earth was mostly just used for RPG, and the Silmarillion has been left untouched on the book-shelves in my home. But are you saying that there's a nazi-hunting-artifacts storyline? Like Indiana Jones in Middle Earth?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    No, I just made that up. Assuming technology continues to develop, if sauron hasn't been defeated by the fifth age there very well might be a mordorian nazi treasure hunter storyline

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Oh... it would be kinda cool though: the modern world set in middle earth. Maybe add a little steam punk dwarven tech and some elves with electric doodads. I could definitely see an elven technological schism with one traditional group and another consisting of hipsters with the latest innovations.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Too risky.
    What if the huge lump of steel ends up having a hole (imperfection, which would be caused by the will of Sauron affecting the Dwarven workers' concentration) and someone then puts a finger in it?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Have guards at a safe distance ready to flood the casting floor with molten iron, while the dwarves are working. It may be cruel, but an influenced dwarf wouldn't get away with the ring.

    Imperfections would be acceptable. I mean once the ring is encased in 2 tons of steel good frigging luck getting to it unnoticed.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Do we know what powers the ring gives to a dwarven smith?
    Would he be able to find a way to escape incoming molten metal the moment he put his finger in a 2 ton steel sphere?

    What if he ends up with the power to mould metal by thought? He might just manage to deform the same piece of steel and use it to prevent the molten metal from getting to him and then use it to create stilts and a shield for incoming guard attack?

    Ok, maybe they can just make a cast, separately, away from the ring's influence and then get Frodo to drop the ring in the molten metal right after it part of it has been poured in.
    But what if the ring ends up floating or sinking during the hardening (cooling down) process, making it accessible to touch, but at the same time, hard enough to detect?

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