Rumil posted:
"We can only hope that the bones of Isildur himself were scattered by the Anduin."
UT's chapter 'the Disaster of the Gladden Fields' actually tells us that Saruman found Isildur's remains and had burned them.
As for Sauron wanting to contact the dead spirits to mine them for info re: the ring and such, seems unlikely at least after so long a time.
Sauron and Morgoth do not seem to be able to control human fea/spirit's after their death unless they broke a vow or had actively joined the dark side or were captured by the rings or somesuch.
I do not think he could summon a 3,000 year old fea back to some bones he found.
The fea would long ago have passed directly into the providence of Eru.
As for Sauron practicing the divinatory
[-mancy] aspect of 'necromancy'. I do nit at all see it.
He used the word, I think [remember it is in the Hobbit only] in it's more generic 'wizardly' sense. I imagine he liked the sound of it, for his purposes.
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