Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-174.44.92.186-20140909202751/@comment-29458028-20140916143603

Yup, that was the point, the ring is half of his power, which meant that losing it was as good as throwing away half your magicka pool and chucking half your spell power (He even lost one hand, must have hurt). Not exactly very advantageous to the dark lord. Sure, he's still powerful, but he is not quite the man he once was, no matter how you go about it.

Yes, I know Sauron was cool in the books and even in the movies, much more cool and badass than Pelinal, but that's besides the point. Sauron was vanquished by a .... cough ..... normal elf and his power sword (granted, it was a very good power sword). Pelinal was torn apart by 8 elf necromancer kings after killing the swag boss (If he survived, it would be ludicrous.)

(It's not Sauron's fault actually, concerning his defeat. As earlier, Tolkien was a huge fan of fridge magicks and righteous luck. The good always whipped the bad, no matter how impossible it seemed.)