Surely this is the reason why he sent only a small company of orcs to waylay the Fellowship and not a more significant force. His main goal is to capture Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor and that is where the main part of his attention is focussed. As Frodo draws nearer to Mordor he begins to become more aware of the Ring’s power threatening to use that power against Gollum in order to frighten him into co-operation, but compared to what Sauron could achieve if he were to regain possession of the Ring this is very small.īecause of this Sauron believes that he has a window of opportunity to strike a blow against his foes that will be strong enough to defeat them. Gollum, and then Bilbo later, possessed and used the Ring, but neither were able to do much more with it than to make themselves invisible. “If he had used all his power to guard Mordor, so that none could enter, and bent all his guile to the hunting of the Ring, then indeed hope would have faded: neither Ring nor bearer could long have eluded him.”īut what Sauron believes is that it will take time even for the most able of his enemies to learn how to wield the power of the Ring in a way that could ensure victory over him. With this conviction he is concentrating upon attack rather than defence. He has spoken of how Sauron has no conception of the possibility that his enemies might want to destroy the Ring, being convinced that one of them will seize control of it and use it against him. Gandalf has been giving Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli a briefing on the state of affairs in the War of the Ring at this point in the story when he has been reunited with them in Fangorn Forest. One who was chosen by the Valar to rouse the peoples of Middle-earth against Sauron chooses to turn against them and to side with the very power against whom he was sent to fight. The treason of Isengard is one of the saddest stories within all that makes up The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp.646-650
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