Thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, the island of Númenor was among the greatest kingdoms Middle-Earth had ever seen. Unfortunately, Númenor's ruin was brought about by the insidious corruption of Sauron, who manipulated his imprisonment on the island into a position of power. Fans of Tolkien's works have often wondered, however, what happened to the One Ring while Sauron was in Númenor?