Board Thread:Lore/@comment-26073467-20150610065138/@comment-26298013-20150611152652

I'm not sure about Sauron controlling the 3. He can read the thoughts/minds of anyone using one of the Three Rings (If he has the One Ring) but cannot control them. He gave the Dwarves the Seven and Men the Nine, but Dwarves, by a virtue of their race, cannot and will not be controlled by anyone else, and therefore all the Seven cause are greed, the accumulation of gold, and some disasters due to that accumulation. The mortal kings who Sauron gave rings to, however, were weaker and greedy, and so wore the rings constantly became corrupted and permanently in the shadow world, etc. But Sauron probably never so much as saw the Three Rings, because Celebrimbor forged them in secret.