Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-23790511-20150908170507/@comment-25857155-20151012192051

Shadow, I'm pretty sure Sauron was bound to spirit form for the end of the Third Age after losing The Ring, since he bound so much power in it to tame the others. Yes, he had at least one Palantir, which is what he used to get that power of far-seeing from, but I'm fairly certain the description of a great eye in the trilogy was a concrete one, not a metaphorical.