Saruman's death

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Findegil

The fea of Sauron we see grasping for the western parts of Middle-Earth, while Saruman is praying to the outermost west (Valinor), I would say.

The similarity I see is that both were given a judgement, it seems, by someone, in the form of the wind that takes them.

Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out toward them a vast threatening hand......a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed; and then a hush fell.

ROTK The Field of Cormallen

For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing.

ROTK The Scouring of the Shire

Originally Posted by Findegil

By the way: Sauron was not pushed outside the world into the void. He was reduced to a spirt unable to effect the physical world but oblidge to stay in Eä until the end. There were only 6 cases in which Ainur were premitted to leave Eä before it final end and in all 6 cases Eru himself was involved: Morgoth after the defeat at the end of the First Age and the Istari.

I thought of that point about Sauron remaining in ME indefinitley as well. I do recall a quote that would lead one to believe he eventually went to the Void, however.

Among those of his servants that have names the greatest was [that spirit whom the Eldar called Sauron....in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.

Silm Valaquenta