There Was Another Way to Destroy the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings
According to Tolkien, Sauron wasn’t worried about the One Ring being destroyed because it couldn’t be broken or unmade by anyone less skilled than himself. This suggests that a craftsperson with equal or greater skill could have potentially destroyed the Ring without needing to throw it into Mount Doom. By the time of The Lord of the Rings, though, no one alive possessed that level of skill. Sauron had originally learned his craft from Aulë, a powerful god of forging, but there might have been individuals in the distant past who could have unmade the Ring.
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