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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
How many steps/events left until the forging of the one ring at mount Doom? Do the appendices cover all of this?
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In the lore, it's actually supposed to be forged before the attack on Eregion. But the series is delaying it, since that helps:
1) Enable the Elven Rings to be used for much longer
2) Make Sauron less weak since he loses in battle even with it on
3) Possibly avoid the question on how he got it back to the mainland after the fall of Numenor