so, like. they had to destroy the ring by putting it in mount doom, right. but like... couldn't they have thrown it in any old volcano, or just the bottom of the ocean, if all they needed was to ensure that nobody could ever get at it? what's the problem with that strategy that i'm overlooking?
or was it that they needed to destroy the ring properly in order to destroy sauron? i'm not entirely clear what's load-bearing against what here
@typhlosion was there another volcano??
@pillowcat @typhlosion Isn't the lonely mountain a dormant volcano?
@pillowcat @typhlosion well, kas was talking about putting it somewhere no one would ever get it again, instead of destroying it
@pillowcat @typhlosion but it's probably too dormant to get the ring irretrievably lost anyway, the ring does have some agency and can manipulate where it ends up to some degree (this is how it escaped from smeagol)
@Felthry @typhlosion nah, the ring always finds a way
plus, like, by that point, Sauron had enough power to, like, defeat Middle Earth even without the ring returned to him
@Felthry @typhlosion maybe too dormant to destroy the one ring