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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
Perhaps so. However, even from your words, Huan didn't really kill Sauron, as Eonwe said in the beginning of the thread. Vanquished=defeated, concoured; not necessarily slain. He lost his power and his body when he was defeated, but was he really killed by Huan?
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My first response above was to the section I quoted, which included that you didn't think Sauron was 'ever killed'. I didn't say Huan slew Sauron -- the Silmarillion text (1977 text anyway) says Huan released Sauron after Sauron yielded to Luthien.
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Moreover, it says in The Sil that the only reason why Sauron left his body in Huan's possession is because he couldn't escape otherwise, and he left it on free will - Huan didn't really force him to do that.
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The tale reads
'Ere his foul spirit left its dark house' Luthien came to Sauron. Or from the Grey Annals;
'Thus Sauron was constrained to yield up Tol Sirion, ere bereft of his bodily form he passed away as a black shadow into Taur-nu-Fuin.'
A draft text notes:
'Then lest he be forced from the body unwillingly, which is a dire pain to such spirits, he yielded himself. And Luthien and Huan wrested from him the keys of the tower,...' Lost Road pg. 300