JKR and JRRT

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 178703

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff Bannister:
> 
> > "Just because you haven't got a body anymore you
> > can't go round sulking and wanting to rule the world."

Lee: 
> Just to correct one myth perpetuated by the movie (and to move this 
> thread completely OT): of course Sauron had a body; on what did he wear 
> the Ring? And you'll recall Gollum specifically mentioning Sauron's 
> missing finger.

Geoff:
Yes. However, there is perhaps a parallel here with Voldemort who 
was unbodied after the Godric's Hollow attempt on Harry's life at 
Hallowe'en 1981. 

As GOF records:
'"My curse was deflected by the woman's foolish sacrifice and it 
rebounded on me. Aaah... pain beyond pain, my friends, nothing 
could have prepared me for it. I was ripped from my body, I was less 
than spirit, less than the meanest ghost... but still, I was alive."'
(GOF "The Death Eaters" p.566 UK edition)

...and we also have:
'But Sauron also was thrown down and with the hilt-shard of Narsil, 
Isildur cut the Ruling Ring from the hand of Sauron and took it for his 
own. Then Sauron was for that time vanquished and he forsook his 
body and his spirit fled far away and hid in waste places; and he took 
no visible shape again for many long years.'
(The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age")

Sound familiar?