I was under the impression that without their cloaks they were shapeless forms, so when the waters washed them away it dismounted them from their horses and washed their cloaks away. They then had to go back to Mordor to take form again within their cloaks. (getting new cloaks I suppose?) In this same way they would be wary of fire because it could incinerate their cloaks.
[ August 14, 2002: Message edited by: Shadowstrife911 ]
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