- Ce devait être Minas Ithil, que bâtit Isildur le fils d'Elendil, dit Frodon. Ce fut Isildur qui coupa le doigt de l'Ennemi.
- Oui. Il n'en a que quatre sur la Main Noire, mais cela suffit, dit Gollum, frissonnant. Et il haïssait la cité d'Isildur.
LA PORTE NOIRE EST FERMEE
" Certains ici se rappelleront qu'il y a bien des années j'osai moi-même passer les portes du Nécromancien à Dol Guldur; j'explorai secrètement ses façons, et je trouvai que nos craintes étaient fondées: il n'était autre que Sauron, notre Ennemi de jadis, qui reprenait finalement forme et pouvoir.
LE CONSEIL D'ELROND
Point de vue qui semble bien être confirmé par les Letters :
Lettre 246 à Mme Eileen Elgar (brouillon) septembre 1963
(Le passage juste avant évoque ce qui arriverait si Frodo conservait l'anneau, à Orodruin : les Nazgûl arrivent, le convainquent de sortir et détruisent l'entrée...)
"Until Sauron himself came. In any case a confrontation of Frodo and Sauron would soon have taken place, if the Ring was intact. Its result was inevitable. Frodo would have been utterly overthrown: crushed to dust, or preserved in torment as a gibbering slave. Sauron would not have feared the Ring! It was his own and under his will. Even from afar he had an effect upon it, to make it work for its return to himself. In his actual presence none but very few of equal stature could have hoped to withhold it from him. Of 'mortals' no one, not even Aragorn. In the contest with the Palantír Aragorn was the rightful owner. Also the contest took place at a distance, and in a tale which allows the incarnation of great spirits in a physical and destructible form their power must be far greater when actually physically present. Sauron should be thought of as very terrible. The form that he took was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic. In his earlier incarnation he was able to veil his power (as Gandalf did) and could appear as a commanding figure of great strength of body and supremely royal demeanour and countenance."
("earlier incarnation" étant Annatar du Second Age, forme qui périt à jamais avec Númenor).
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