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Originally posted by Bernardo:
I actually think Sauron was afraid of the Gandalf and the Istari... and of the elves... Bud didn't Gandalf have one of the rings of power?
Anyway there are 2 other thingsI don't understand...
1) was the great eye a "normal" eye, or did it see much more...? (for ex. Sam and Frodo hide under a ROCK from the eye... shouldn't it have noticed them?)
2) how couldn't the eye see the rings of the elves??? I mean where the hell did they hide?
And one question:
Do you think the eye of sauron might have some connection with the eye of Osiris (RA, egyptian god)???
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As Galadriel told Frodo, if he had put the ring on, and tried to spy out the other rings, he could have with no difficulty, but since he'd never tried it, he didn't know he could, I suspect there are a great many other pwoers of the ring which are unknown simply because in the scope of the stories, very few are actually mentioned, in fact the invisibility seems to be the only benefit most users focused on
As for why the Eye couldn't see the rings of the elves, that power was tied into the One Ring (as mentioned above), Without the Ring, Sauron couldn't spy them out, He could corrupt the users of the rings of power that he had a hand in making, ie the rings for dwarves, men, and the One Ring, the elves however were immune as their rings were forged before Sauron got involved.