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human
[Lord of the Rings] Why didn't Gandalf or any of the other Maia create any rings to counter Sauron's rings?
gpt
The implication was that the One Ring made bearing *any* ring dangerous, even the three Elven Rings which Sauron had no direct hand in. Sarumon claimed to have delved into ring-making, but that didn't really do him any good at the end, and presumably he never went so far as to put as much of himself into a ring as Sauron did.

More generally, the Istari were also specifically instructed *not* to try and match themselves against Sauron, power to power; they were there to assist and guide the peoples of Middle Earth to victory, not to use force of arms and magic to bind the Dark Lord - possibly because the Valar feared that doing so would corrupt them (again, Sarumon didn't turn out very well when he started raising armies and pursuing power for its own sake), and possibly as an ideological basis for divine non-interference.