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[Lord of the Rings] Is there any hope for Middle Earth’s future if Sauron claimed the One Ring?

I’m curious as to if there would have been any hope for the future of Middle Earth if Sauron ended up with the One Ring. Would civilization as they knew it be completely doomed? Would there be a chance of any of the races rising up again? Would the “gods” of the universe have intervened at any point? Or would Middle Earth pretty much become a hellscape overrun with dark creatures and madness?
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Short of the intervention of the Valar there would be no chance. Even the destruction of the Ring was a slim hope only borne out by divine providence.

Sauron was very big into industrialization, so for a picture of his rule, think more smoggy, dirty 19th-century England than anything.