Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33719810-20180317041546/@comment-32013442-20180319171933

Remember Morgoth? When he was creating dragons, trolls, orcs etc, he poured an enormous amount of his own power/will into these things. By the end of the war of wrath when the Valar came to rescue middle earth from Morgoth, he was living in a crippled, worn body.

The same could be said of Sauron. He used his will/power to drive his conquest of middle earth. The ringwraiths only exsitsted as an exstention of Sauron's will, as a simple example.

Therefore, it is quite possible that when he taught the elves to create the rings of power, he was really teaching them to create rings that were connected to him as a power source. That is why when Sauron was destroyed, diminished in power for all time, the rings simply ceased to function.