So the question becomes, "Why not?."Ī similar scene appears in the book, but it's a much less tense moment it's clear that Sauron's attention is focused on the Black Gate, where Aragorn's army is massed: The obvious (and, really, only) answer is that Sauron didn't actually know the Ring was there. I assume you're referring to this moment from the film version of Return of the King: Return of the King Book VI Chapter 3: "Mount Doom"īut regardless, it's an equally sensible question to ask why he didn't send them so that's the one I'm going to answer. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung.įrom all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. This is what he does later, when he realizes (too late) that his defeat is imminent (emphasis mine):Īr away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dûr was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. He wouldn't have sent Orcs after his Precious, not if it was so close to the place it could have been destroyed he would have sent the Nazgûl.
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