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The prisoner is to be kept safe and intact, under pain of death for every member of the guard, until He sends or comes Himself.
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From the capitalization of He and Himself we can deduce that the He is Sauron. Obloquy is correct, Sauron is most definitely more than an eye. I've always thought that the eye was a spiritual image that was projected by Sauron. I'm sure that Sauron would have been able to project that image through the Ithil palantir. That is also probably how Sauron would make himself appear in the spiritual world. Frodo sees the giant eye when he has the Ring on and is in the spiritual world. As Frodo gets closer to Mount Doom and Sauron, he begins to see the eye all the time. This is either because Frodo is starting to fade, or because Sauron's force is becoming so strong that the eye is able to tear through the corporeal world and become manifest to whoever has the Ring. Personally I believe the latter. Every being of great power has some sort of an aura that is the reflection of their power on the physical world. Glorfindel, Gandalf, Galadriel, all have this shrouded white light. The Nazgul and The Balrog have this cloud of fear and power that goes before them. Sauron definitely has a physical body, he is not only an eye. From the fact that Sauron would issue an order that stated to hold any prisoners until he comes himself I think it's reasonable to assume that Sauron must have left the Barad-dur at some point.
[ June 26, 2002: Message edited by: Thingol ]
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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