What Became of Sauron After the Destruction of the One Ring?

[@Horizon344]

Magisterial. This is what listening to the skalds & bards at the end of the day in the halls of ancient Europe must have been like.

[@TarMody]

When the One Ring is destroyed, Sauron loses his will to reincarnate. He loses his ability to incarnate. His soul is not torn apart, but his access to the part he connected to the One Ring is lost. It is like a kind of spiritual paralysis. We can compare this situation to the following: A person whose limb is paralyzed still has that limb in his body, but he has lost the ability to use it. This is what happens to Sauron spiritually. The spiritual part he did not connect to the One Ring during his incarnation is still with him, and although this part cannot physically interact with the Seen World, theoretically it has the potential to continue to direct the will to a certain extent by penetrating the minds of the beings he targets through ósanwë (a kind of telepathic mental communication). The source of the metaphysical effect underlying the cult formations based on the Blue Wizards that continued their existence after Sauron's fall may be this potential of Sauron. Perhaps it can also be thought that with the destruction of the One Ring, Sauron lost this ósanwë ability and was therefore reduced to an absolutely ineffective being.

[@sheilaallemann4832]

Yea he needs those rings

[@simonkoster]

I think Saruman's fate would be similar.

[@giorgiomasci455]

I think not. Like Morgoth and Sauron before him, maybe saruman will receive a very long punition for his outrangerous crimes. But at last he will return to his rank. The valar teaches that a second chance and the redemption, are wise valors and everybody can have them.