Hear me out: Maybe TROP is depicting the "real" version of how rings were forged: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die." Silmarillion tells the ELVEN version of the making of the rings.
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Just look at how they slander the Dwarves as simply being greedy and caring only for gold and jewels, when it was the Elves who started a millennia long war over jewels.
Silm is Elven propaganda, says I.
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It's an interesting idea for telling a related story, like _The Last Ringbearer_'s