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Originally Posted by Rhod the Red
Yes he was, after dying in the destruction of Numenour
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The only thing Sauron lost in the destruction of Numenor was his ability to appear in
fair form; afterwards, he makes a new "guise", which is, again, destroyed in the battle of the last alliance. Afterwards, as I quoted from the letters, he makes a new form again. It is only after the final destruction of the ring that he remains in bodyless state, "reduced to impotence, infinitely recessive".
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Originally Posted by Akallabeth, Silmarillion
But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.
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