NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/alt/fan/tolkien/1537

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Lewchuk)
Subject: Re: Melkor: Genetic Engineer? (was: Origin of Orcs) and other musings
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[e-mail] (Michael P. Colburn) writes:
> This example also shows how much more of a powerful force
>Melkor was than Sauron (and a better scientist, too;-)).  When Melkor
>was exiled from Middle Earth, his 'creations' didn't become mindless
>like Sauron's hybrid's...this, of course, is assuming Melkor didn't
>have some sort of control over his minions from the void (I certainly
>haven't read anywhere that this was possible).

Sauron was pretty much killed after the War of the Ring.  Not only was he
banished, but so diminished in power all he could do was sulk.  He had no
power over anything anymore.  Melkor however, was banished, I believe, not
diminished (or was he?).  Thus, he still had power in Middle-Earth, and the
Dark Races still remembered and worshippped him as his evil lingered on.  If
Sauron had still been powerful after the Ring had been destroyed, I'm sure
that many of his forces would still have survived after the War of the Ring.
But as it was, basically everything he did was unmade and so not only was he
powerless, all the stuff he did in Middle-Earth was basically undone.

                    Michael Lewchuk
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