<P> This raises the question of whether an "Eye" was Sauron's actual manifestation, or whether he had a body beyond the Eye . Gollum (who was tortured by Sauron in person) tells Frodo that Sauron has, at least, a "Black Hand" with four fingers . The missing finger was cut off when Isildur took the Ring, and the finger was still missing when Sauron reappeared centuries later . </P> <P> Tolkien writes in The Silmarillion that "the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure" even before his body was lost in the War of the Last Alliance . </P> <P> In the draft text of the climactic moments of The Lord of the Rings, "the Eye" stands for Sauron's very person, with emotions and thoughts: </P> <P> The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him (Frodo), the Eye piercing all shadows...Its wrath blazed like a sudden flame and its fear was like a great black smoke, for it knew its deadly peril, the thread upon which hung its doom...(I) ts thought was now bent with all its overwhelming force upon the Mountain ..." </P>

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