The True Master.

[Farael]

Originally Posted by The 1,000 Reader

On the incarnate matter, if Sauron and Morgoth wanted to be powerful and ever-lasting, why did they even make themselves bodies to begin with? It just sounds plain stupid to me.

Possibly because as spirits they would have less control on the physical realm... sure, they could adopt a temporary shape (and that is probably how it started, as we see both Morgoth and Sauron able to appear as very beautiful and noble as well as very frightful and terrible) yet after a while they could no longer leave or change their physical shape.

Besides, we 'know' that by being incarnated they had really great physical powers... and that's what both Melkor and Sauron wanted, power and control over the physical world, as they knew the spiritual world belonged to Eru and the Valar