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<blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 3353379" data-attributes="member: 5656">Not exact. Arsgorn marched to the north to fool Sauron into thinking they had the ring and amas an army big enough to crush them, pulling troops from mordor and easing Frodo's way. This is explicitly stated in he books, and if anything it implies that Sauron can't detect the ring, perhaps unless it's being used or worn. Sauron didn't have hordes of winged beasts, of else he'd have used them or at least being mentioned in the books. He had a very limited number of Fell Beasts, just enough for the nazgul and replace some losses. Huh? The idea is to fly over the orcs, not through the orcs. Who cares about he black gate? If you are thinking on Mount Doom being heavily defended, tell me how it'd have changed for a footslogging party instead of a flying party.Surely he had the means, but it's clear in the books that he never had a reason to. It was only in the last moment, when Frodo wore the ring, that Sauron finally was able to add 2 and 2 and deduct that what the good guys were trying to do all along, what the two hobbits his orcs captured not so long ago were trying to do, was to destroy the Ring. gandalf himeslf said that Sauron would never think on someone wanting to destroy the Ring, just using it to get rid of Sauron. What if they want to visit mount doom? There's nothing there but ash and hot lava. By the time an orc patrol had climbed the volcano, the ring would be history.That's a... well, for Eric's grandma's sake, I'll just say that I have a pretty low opinion of that theory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Someone, post: 3353379, member: 5656"] Not exact. Arsgorn marched to the north to fool Sauron into thinking [i]they[/i] had the ring and amas an army big enough to crush them, pulling troops from mordor and easing Frodo's way. This is explicitly stated in he books, and if anything it implies that Sauron can't detect the ring, perhaps unless it's being used or worn. Sauron didn't have hordes of winged beasts, of else he'd have used them or at least being mentioned in the books. He had a very limited number of Fell Beasts, just enough for the nazgul and replace some losses. Huh? The idea is to fly over the orcs, not through the orcs. Who cares about he black gate? If you are thinking on Mount Doom being heavily defended, tell me how it'd have changed for a footslogging party instead of a flying party. Surely he had the means, but it's clear in the books that he never had a reason to. It was only in the last moment, when Frodo wore the ring, that Sauron finally was able to add 2 and 2 and deduct that what the good guys were trying to do all along, what the two hobbits his orcs captured not so long ago were trying to do, was to destroy the Ring. gandalf himeslf said that Sauron would never think on someone wanting to destroy the Ring, just using it to get rid of Sauron. What if they want to visit mount doom? There's nothing there but ash and hot lava. By the time an orc patrol had climbed the volcano, the ring would be history. That's a... well, for Eric's grandma's sake, I'll just say that I have a pretty low opinion of that theory. [/QUOTE]

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