Each had his shade blown away and dissipated by the West Wind. Each being a Maia, I didn’t think it was possible for them to “die” in the ordinary sense. Were they cast into the outer darkness to keep Melkor company?
I’m not sure about Saruman but I think I remember a passage in one of the books (Unfinished Tales or such) stating that Sauron ended up in “the Void” fated to follow in Morgoth’s footsteps as a lesser~ “shadow of his malice”.
That’s it of the top of my headl; I’m sure someone with the actual books will show up soon.
I don’t think either of them were “shut behind the Wall of Night” like Melkor was. In Sauron’s case, his spirit was so weakened by the destruction of the ring, into which he’d put much substance of himself, that there was no fear of him ever becoming re-bodied, or doing more than being an impotent spirit of malice.
As for Saruman, when his spirit was unhoused, it seems it was denied a return to the West by the Powers. I assumed that it also became incapable of being re-bodied or influencing the material world.
I’d have to read thru the HOMES again to see if there’s anything more suggested in there about their fate. And that’s heavy slogging. A brief foray into Volume XII “The Peoples of Middle-Earth” gleaned such nuggets as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins’ (nee Bracegirdle) actual first name in the Common Speech (or at least 3 versions of it, JRRT took a while to nail it down) and the reasoning that the author used to come up with both the CS name and it’s english translation. A page and a half of notes and foot-notes on something that never actually was used or saw publication during his lifetime! The man was the ultimate language geek! And I mean that in a good way.
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I always wanted to know more about the blue wizards.
You mean Alatar and Pallando. You can read more about them in JRRT’s “Unfinished Tales” in the chapter entitled “The Istari”. They were Maiar of Orome.
IIRC my Unfinished Tales (it’s been a decade or so), you can’t read much more about them than that they hit the road and disappeared. I was left with the impression that they were essentially Radagast-types, too busy falling in love with Middle-Earth’s rocks and rivers or whatever to give much of a flip about the politics and rings of power.
That bit about Sauron “following Morgoth into the Void” was from The Silmarillion. Not the Quenta Silmarillion (Silmarillion “proper”) but one of the shorter books in the begining. The last paragraph of “Ailulindale”(sp?) if I’m not mistaken.