I think the ring is important...

9/24/12
Passage from the text:
“Fruitless did I call the victory of the Last Alliance? Not wholly so, yet it did not achieve its end. Sauron was diminished, but not destroyed. His Ring was lost but not unmade. The Dark Tower was broken, but its foundations were not removed; for they were made with the power of the Ring, and while it remains they will endure.”

Pg#: 238

Commentary: [Rhetorical Analysis]
I’m liking the parallel structure here. It gives an air of officialness to the Council and to the speaker, Elrond. That the Ring is spoken of as the essential piece to the powers of evil makes Frodo’s job all the more harder. The author presents these words from the mouth of the most respected person in the World of Lord of the Rings which equates the quote with the the basis for the book.