Return the Hx to the fires of Mount Doom

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at t...> wrote:

> 
> In another section, which I trying to locate, we are told (by
Gandalf  IIRC) that if the Ring is destroyed, Sauron will lose
virtually all his power – reminiscent of Godric's Hollow perhaps
– will fall so low  that no one will foresee him ever rising
again.

Pippin:
It's in Return of the King, The Last Debate, Gandalf speaking:
 
"If it is destroyed, then he will fall; and his fall will be so low
that none can foresee his arising ever again. For he will lose the 
best part of the strength that was native to him in his beginning, 
and all that was made or begun by that power will crumble, and 
hewill be maimed for ever, becoming a mere spirit of malice that
gnaws itself in the shadows, but cannot again grow or take 
shape. And so a great evil of this world will be removed."

 I thought of that passage too when I read Voldemort's description
of his post-Godric's Hollow state,  except that Sauron was not 
expected to retain any power to possess and corrupt others.

Pippin