Sauron was already immortal. Still is, as a matter of fact. When the Ring was destroyed, Sauron didn't actually die, he was just rendered completely powerless.

^you know what I meant.

Well, now I do. It just took me a few minutes to understand. XP I don't presume to know what Eru would or wouldn't do, but I guess it's a fair theory.

I don't think is a very good theory. Eru rarely interferes and returning the One Ring to somewhere Sauron could get to it on the off chance someone else could destroy seems fall far below the expected threshold based on past involvement of Eru. I don't see Eru as so thoughtless as, "oh look I should return this little thing to Eä so someone might destroy it or Sauron might get it, so I'll just throw it somewhere and wash my hands of it."

If Eru was going to return the One Ring to Eä, why wouldn't he just destroy it or give it to the Valar?

^He would be interfering either way. But you're right, might as well destroy it.

Why on Earth are people so hung up on “Eru is omnipotent - he could find it” and “how did the ring get in the void” etc. It’s a bloody hypothetical. The ring is out of the picture - that’s all that matters. That’s all they were asking. Stop hammering on about how that doesn’t make sense for this reason and that reason.

Stupid hypotheticals are still stupid. Also, we discussed the part about the ring being out of the picture... maybe you just ignored that part.

I did read it all actually. Just baffled me how the one part of the question that was a given as a hypothetical is what *most* of these comments are focusing on instead of answering. It’s like if I asked “what would happen if country X declared war on country Y?” and you replied “that wouldn’t happen”. It’s just not a useful input to the conversation.

It is useful and people talked about it, because a nonsensical premise is both confusing and makes it more difficult to figure out what the result of a hypothetical might be.

Either way, your complaint is truly useless, because you don't even respond to the hypothetical and just complain about other people focusing on something you don't like.

Like a boss.