@NoDoxGregBrady @sickburnbro @TrevorGoodchild @Eiswald So, let us take Sauron splitting his soul and infusing part of it into a golden ring. This is rightfully unnatural and actually entirely irrational. Splitting his soul like this is, in a way, destroying it (and it shows, since he isn’t powerful without his ring). Placing his soul in an inanimate ring is also unnatural, since a ring is not made to receive even human souls, let alone Sauron’s. And finally, it is irrational since Sauron, as a Maiar by nature, would be immortal. Therefore, his act of creating the ring actually comes from his irrational desire to dominate all of nature.