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Re: Sauron and his Ring
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I wonder if sauron would have been destroyed if Isildur would have cast the ring into the flames of Orodruin? And isnt it said that Sauron wasnt destroyed totally but would come back again after.... many many years after Frodo's great deed?<hr></blockquote>
Partially answered by Herenistarion
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Sauron would become powerless ghost some 3000 years earlier than he actually did.<hr></blockquote>
Correct.
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As for him coming back __ the final battle is still to come.<hr></blockquote>
The final battle is still to come yes, but Sauron would/will not be a part of it.
LETTERS #200
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Quote:<hr> J.R.R.Tolkien
After the battle with Gil-galad and Elendil, Sauron took a long while to re-build, longer than he had done after the Downfall of Numenor (I suppose because each building-up used up some of the inherent energy of the spirit, which might be called the 'will' or the effective link between the indestructible mind and being and the realization of its imagination). The
impossibility of re-building after the destruction of the Ring, is sufficiently clear 'mythologically' in the present book.<hr></blockquote>
While Tolkien asserts that the mind and spirit are indestructible, the ability to "realize its imagination" of a body once again is beyond Sauron's ability. He is forever doomed to bodiless form.
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Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000133>Saulotus </A> at: 11/9/00 6:10:13 am