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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 353405" data-attributes="member: 2020">Good reply, Storm Raven.  You are right, of course.  Sauron WAS spending nearly all his time looking for the Ring (what else would he be doing?)  Sauron would never be foolish enough to leave his land undefended from the eagles - he would have learned from the injury to his master, Morgoth, by Thorondor.  Aerial spotters would have seen Gwindor and Frodo when they flew over the border mountains (Ered Lithui or Ered Duath)  Aerial creatures loyal to Mordor would then have intercepted and surrounded Gwindor and Frodo, cutting off further advance or any retreat.  The Nazgul would have mounted on their aerial steeds, and spearheaded the main assault to take back the Ring from Frodo.  And Sauron himself would have bent his gaze upon Gwindor and Frodo.  In Mordor itself, the Eye of Sauron could be physically perceived and felt without the need to have a Ring of Power on one's finger.  The full force of the Eye of Sauron, fixed directly upon them, would have been more than either Gwindor or Frodo could have endured for very long.  Heh.   And if that did not work, Sauron could have blockaded Mount Doom with aerial creatures and orcs, while he summoned the balrog in Moria to Mordor.  That balrog could have been at Mount Doom from the depths of Khazad-Dum in a matter of a couple hours (if that sounds difficult to believe, read what the balrogs did for Morgoth in the Simarillion.)    It's a shame Sauron was so arrogant.  In his thinking, he - literally - could not imagine his foes trying to destroy the Ring;  not when it could be used against him as a weapon of war.  Otherwise, Sauron could have set up shop at Sammath Naur personally.  A most nasty surprise for Sam, and Gollum also, to arrive at the Cracks of Doom to find Sauron putting on the Ring in triumph, Frodo broken at his feet.  Knowing Gollum, he would have tried to take the Ring from Sauron himself.  LOL.    I suppose a lucky hit, from a running start by Gollum, could have knocked Sauron, Gollum, Ring and all into the chasm - thus winning it for the good guys.  Then, Gollum would truly have been the hero of LOTR.</blockquote>

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