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- From: ses2@po.CWRU.Edu (S. E. Stansfield)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Death of a Maia
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 19:26:03 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) says:
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- >Just to complicate the whole "What happens to Maia on death" question,
- >I always thought that Sauron's original physical form was killed in
- >the fall of Numenor. He seems to have gotten himself another physical
- >form (though, from all accounts, a rather hideous one lacking in the
- >shape-change powers that he had originally had).
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- In TLOTR there are three Maiar that "die". Sauron, Saruman and the Balrog.
- In the first two cases there is a cloud that appears and then disperses.
- When Saruman is killed on the doorstep of Bag End the cloud "looks" to the
- west and is dispersed by a suddenly appearing wind.
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- When subtlety fails us we must make do with cream pies.
- --David Brin
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