This is a copy of a PM I received from
Boromir88 -- it's pretty self-explanatory (and interesting).
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Well, I can't find the option to create a poll, so apparently I can't make one. But, I do have a knew one that you can sink your hands into, if you would so like?
Who delivered the final blow?
Elendil
Gil-galad
Isildur
Which one delivered the final blow in killing Sauron (physical form of course)?
Here's some info I've gathered that can be used.
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But at the last the siege was so strait that Sauron himself came forth; and he wrestled with Gil-galad and Elendil, and they both were slain, and the sword of Elendil broke under him as he fell. But Sauron also was thrown down, and with the hilt-shard of Narsil Isildur cut the Ruling Ring from the hand of Sauron and took it for his own. Then Sauron was for that time vanquished, and he forsook his body, and his spirit fled far away and hid in waste places; and he took no visible shape again for many long years.~The Silmarillion
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'Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death blow?"~ Isildur to Elrond and Cirdan: The Silmarillion
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So, on one hand we have Elendil and Gil-galad fighting with Sauron, and Sauron was "overthrown" and thrown back. Was he mortally wounded though?
Then on the other we have Isildur bragging he did it. And also, you have to wonder if Elendil and Gil-galad had "killed" Sauron, before Isildur cut off the ring. Or, was it the "cutting off the Ring," that delivered the final blow to Sauron?
Just some thoughts on another poll.
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Have at it! (And thanks to Boro for a great topic -- I was beginning to go into Poll Withdrawal.
12-05-2005, 12:29 PM
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