More than meets the Eye

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Originally Posted by Boromir88

After Sauron was overthrown by Gil-galad and Elendil Sauron did re-build his body, it just took him longer than before. I guess you could read this as implying if you simply killed Sauron enough times he wouldn't have enough 'will' to build himself a new body.

Also, in each reincarnation, Sauron's form devolved into his more inward disposition. No longer could he take the fair form of Annatar and hope by his outward beauty to deceive; his evil got the best of even his appearance, as seen similarly in the last days of Saruman.

It was either that or the pipeweed smoke.

It does make one wonder, at the end of all things in RotK (the book), what Aragorn and company do with the body (if anything even existed), armour and/or effects of Sauron? Were they spirited away by henchmen so that a new power could arise with the literal mantle of the Dark Lord in the Fourth Age?