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The Power of a Dark Lord (to take it Universally,) is
his present means, to obtain some future apparent Evil.
And it is either Originall, or Instrumentall....
...The Greatest of humane Powers, is that which is compounded
of the Powers of most rings, united by consent, in one
ring, Naturall, or Civill, tha has the use of all their
Powers depending on the Dark Lord's will; such as is
the Power of the One Ring: Or depending on the wills
of each particular; such as is the Power of a Fellowship,
or of diverse fellowships leagued. Therefore to have
rings, is Power: To have the One Ring, is ultimate Power:
for it is one to rule them all....
...Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre,
where every orc is Enemy to every hobbit; the same is
consequent to the time, wherein hobbits live without
other security, than what their own strength, and their
own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition,
there is no place for Gardening; because the fruit therof
is uncertain; and consequently no Smoking of the Pipeweede;
no hobbit-hole Building; no Ale-drinking; no Knowledge
of the face of Middle Earth; no account of Second Breakfaste;
no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst
of all, continual feare, and danger of missing a Meal;
And the life of hobbits, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish,
and short....