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[Lord of the Rings] Could Gandalf also make a ring and "pour" his powers into it if he wished to?

Would there be anything wrong if Gandalf, like Sauron, poured his powers into a ring of power and gave that ring to someone? Would that still be considered Gandalf "interfering" in the matters of middle earth?
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It's worth noting that creating such a ring is very very hard to do. It isn't just a matter of making a gold ring and shooting a bunch of your mana into it. There was a lot of esoteric craftsmanship that went into the magical rings. (however, it's worth noting that the act of pooing your power into something you create isn't unique to the rings of power, as Faenor  who made the silmarils and palantirs also was said to have been "diminished" after he made them, and that it would be impossible for him to recreate them since he had poored so much of himself into them) 

Even Saruman, who was a maiar of aule (the valar of smiting and craftmanship, who sauron also was an apprentice of at the start), and who spent years upon years researching ringlore and how to recreate the one ring, couldn't even create a proper ring. He did create a magical ring, iirc he even created several, but none of them worked as well as the one ring, if they even worked at all. So, it's not only a power issue, it's that the secrets of actually making such rings is a secret only sauron and celebrimbor knew, since sauron was basically the one who invented it. 

Now, add into this that gandalf is a maiar of manwe not aule, he has never studied ringlore and has never created anything more complex than some firework, then it's fair to say that the answer is no, gandalf can't create his own ring of power.