Thread: Killing Maia
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Old 06-14-2004, 04:43 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Lalaith
And as for mortals not killing Maia, wasn't Saruman (Maia) killed by Wormtongue (mortal man)?
His physical form was destructible (even by a mortal man) but what I really wonder is what happened to Sarumans spirit afterwards? The image of the mist shape rising from his body and being blown away by a westwind and dissolving into nothing is most suggestive...and rather similar to the dark cloud rising at the fall of Barad-dûr!
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