He would have considered them utilitarian and nothing like his possessiveness of the Silmarili, which I always considered to be 10% technology and 90% magic and also included, somewhat like the One Ring did for Sauron, enough of himself that it is unlikely he would have survived their breaking up.
This is exactly what I've been trying to explain in one of the topics on the Slovenian Tolkien Society's forum, where the ownership of the Silmarils was discussed. :D But apparently this sort of thing never crossed the minds of the members there. Maybe they missed this part in Silm:
Then he began a long and secret labour, and he summoned all his lore, and his power, and his subtle skill; and at the end of all he made the Silmarils.
The power he put in Silmarils of course couldn't have been the same as Sauron's, who put his will do dominate others in the One Ring, but something different. But what?
Whatever it was (his love, his soul, some kind of power?), I find it probable that he meant precisely what he said - he really would be slain, if he'd break them.
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Date: 2012-03-22 11:39 pm (UTC)This is exactly what I've been trying to explain in one of the topics on the Slovenian Tolkien Society's forum, where the ownership of the Silmarils was discussed. :D But apparently this sort of thing never crossed the minds of the members there. Maybe they missed this part in Silm:
Then he began a long and secret labour, and he summoned all his lore, and his power, and his subtle skill; and at the end of all he made the Silmarils.
The power he put in Silmarils of course couldn't have been the same as Sauron's, who put his will do dominate others in the One Ring, but something different. But what?
Whatever it was (his love, his soul, some kind of power?), I find it probable that he meant precisely what he said - he really would be slain, if he'd break them.