Thread:Beijing1000/@comment-4750818-20140912151112/@comment-27723099-20141001132246

I read a discussion about who is more powerful: Sauron or Imperator Palpatine (I hope I spelled the name correctly)

Someone said, the empire could easily destroy whole Middle-Earth. Someone else answered that the ring would survive this and Sauron would be revived because the ring still exists. Even worse, since Mount Doom is destroyed too, the ring can never be destroyed.

If this annihilation happened during the war of the ring, Sauron would survive.