To me, the most disappointing part of the story are the other rings. The Elves just have theirs, can't wear them, but still have perfectly defended realms due to them. The Dwarven Kingdoms were destroyed by theirs and we don't get to see any of it. The nine Humans are also destroyed and not seen, then the Kings are just turned into lowly mooks? Sure they can't die, but they're also incompetent. Even 9v1 they get btfo'd easily. They should have wizardly powers rivaling Gandalf when all together and commanding hordes of undead creatures. Sauron could have spread them out to attack many parts of Middle Earth all at once and it would have made sense why no one could muster a large army to defend against him. They had to inflate the Witch King's powers in the final chapter to pretend he's any threat whatsoever

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I never bought into that crap kek. That's just proto-star-wars-prequels where everything has to be connected and pretending it was all predestined, etc. Can't just have a fun necromancer story that expands the word, nope, it needs to be Le Sauron! Even thought his return was shocking and unexpected to everyone just a bit later.