Originally posted by JeffF. :
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The Rings of Power seem also to have been made SPECFICALLY for either Men or Dwarves (or the Three for Elves). Sauron had recovered three of the Seven Rings for Dwarves. Finding they did not enslave Dwarves the way the Nine did Men he evidently did not have the option of simply giving these three Dwarf intended rings to Men to enslave them and create three more Nazgul .
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This is by no means certain. While Celebrimbor certainly seems to have known and respected both Numenor and Moria, it would seem very out of character for him to spend (i.e. waste) any time or energy or effort making Rings of Power for them, unasked for, unpaid for, unwanted. I believe all nineteen of the Great Rings were intended for the elves. Whatever 'grand scheme' Celebrimbor may have been contemplating, if any, by creating them, we will never exactly know. I just don't think he would have bothered to create them specifically for either men or dwarves.
Furthermore, there's no way to know that the three Dwarf-rings are, in fact, idle. I have long held a theory (which cannot be substantiated, I admit) that the Mouth of Sauron bears one of these Rings, and is well on his way to becoming a tenth Nazgul. He's just not there yet. He's a black Numenorean, like the Witch-King; he's a magician and sorceror, like the Witch-King. How many lives of men does it take to forget one's own name? Yet he has. How many more to forget one's own SELF as the Nazgul have? Yet he speaks Sauron's mind and thoughts, not his own.
As I said, I can find no text to substantiate this as a theory, except the comparisons I have mentioned. I find nothing to contradict it either. Mostly though, I find it difficult to accept that Sauron would leave three Rings of Power unused, locked up in a box in Barad-dur when he is on the verge of fighting the war to (almost) end all wars.