On the Care and Feeding of Unexpected Visitors

[glints_on_snow]

Diamond wrote in her journal. I cannot express to the others how distressed I was to hear that the stranger we encountered on the edges of Mirkwood forest had a Nazgul's ring. The other stranger, the Maia that appeared to help us, said that Isildur's Bane had returned, but that simply cannot be. Perhaps some other evil Maia has created his own ring

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[phoenix_rising_]

but this thing cannot be Isildur's Bane, for that accursed ring was utterly destroyed.

Are you sure it stayed destroyed?

[glints_on_snow]

*surprised to see that someone else has suddenly joined them*

Indeed, I am certain of it. Isildur's Bane was utterly destroyed. And more than that! We all felt the passing of Sauron, even those of us as far away as the Shire. The ring was his. It was the only thing holding him to this world. When the Ring was destroyed, Sauron lost his hold on Middle Earth and passed on.

*eyes the stranger with a quizzical expression* What is your interest in this Ring?

[phoenix_rising_]

*looks back at you*

That wasn't the question. What I asked was 'are you sure that it stayed destroyed?'
I'm not doubtin' that it was destroyed. I'm just doubtin' that it stayed destroyed, is all.

An' my interest? It seems t' be pestering Buffy an' Lou.

[glints_on_snow]

Of course it stayed destroyed! What a strange question to be asking! A kinsman of mine destroyed it, and at great cost to himself, I may add. He destroyed it in the very fires in which Sauron forged it! Both it and its maker were utterly destroyed. The ring cannot exist without its maker, and Sauron is gone.

*puzzled* Who is...Bufianloo?

[OOC: I am playing Diamond to canon. She is 'unaware' that she is in Theatrical Muse]

[phoenix_rising_]

*shrugs*

Well...it was a thing of seriously strong magic, right? So who's to say that it'd stay destroyed forever? Maybe it has t' be destroyed several times before it gets the idea an' stays dead.

Buffy an' Lou? They're friends of mine.

[glints_on_snow]

*continues to be puzzled* The Ring had no magic of its own, other than what malevolent will that Sauron exercised upon it. It had neither mind nor will of its own. Tis true true that it was embued with evil utterly. Just being near it was enough to drive most men mad with the desire for it, and it hurt my kinsman Frodo dearly to carry it.

But the ring had no way to remake itself without Sauron. It wasn't a living thing with a soul separate from its maker. And Sauron is gone. I don't know what it is here now that is tormenting people, but it is not Isildur's Bane.

[phoenix_rising_]

D'you know that for sure? Or is that just what's commonly known?

[glints_on_snow]

I do know for sure. My husband was part of the Fellowship that destroyed that ring and defeated Sauron. Gandalf himself said that Sauron and his ring were no more, but we all could feelit's passing.

*shakes her head* It's gone. Whatever this evil is now, it is not the Ring that was here before.

[phoenix_rising_]

*sighs and shrugs*

We'll see.