They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :)

I was the first with a movie FAQ and the White Council was one of the first Tolkien web-based message boards.

I must be doing SOMETHING right. :)

: For the past month, there has been an argument going on the
: other forum about what exactly happened when the Ring was taken
: from Sauron, especially with respect to the powers that Sauron
: had bound up in the Ring.

Since Sauron was already dead, about all that COULD happen was his finger was separated from the rest of the corpse.

: One school of thought is that Sauron still had access to his
: power which he had placed in the Ring but could not use the
: Ring to control other (Elven) Ring-Wielders. The evidence
: which has been presented for this is mainly that Sauron is
: incredibly powerful, he can control Orodruin, snow on
: Caradhras, Saruman etc. The proponents of this theory believe
: that there is no way that Sauron could have been this powerful
: without having access to his full original powers.

They're not quite correct. Tolkien wrote that Sauron could still draw on the Ring's power while it existed, because it was in such a close rapport with him. But he needed to be wearing it in order to use its power fully.

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