Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33719810-20180317041546/@comment-34030170-20180318100718

Thindithron the Great wrote: It seems likely that Sauron did lose his physical form after his defeat in the War of the Last Alliance. In killing Gil-galad and Elendil, he sustained such wounds that his physical body was close to death (though of course his spirit would endure in any case). Given time to recover with the Ring, he may have kept the form, but Isildur cut the Ring from his finger. It seems unlikely then, after all that, that Elrond and Isildur would have simply left his body on the battlefield while it was still living; so either his spirit had already fled, or they disposed of the body by burning it. Since the latter is not mentioned in the text, the former seems the more likely of the solutions. But Gollum says that he saw Sauron, and that he was missing a finger.