I think what Em is referring to above (unfortunately without a reference) is the following:
"and Isildur Elendil’s son cut the Ring from Sauron’s hand and took it for his own. Then Sauron was vanquished and his spirit fled and was hidden for long years, until his shadow took shape again in Mirkwood." (LR I,ii)
Of course this doesn't say anything about an eye. It is an imaginable, but unfortunately incorrect assumption that at the time of the Ring War Sauron had still not regained a proper physical form. The Eye assumption, however, is far worse.
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