I'm not even saying we needed the sword duel with Aragorn,

>>86209887
he lost his angelic form thought when Numenor sank didn't he?

>>86209887
It was pretty ballsy having a villain that never actually appears on-screen more than the first 10 minutes.

>>86209915
Nerd

Yeah because what RotK really needed was MORE FUCKING ENDINGS

>>86209887
>precense

what's that?

>>86211527
nigger he was literally pasted over by a CGI troll, it wouldn't change the number of endings at all

Yeah but the whole point of the scene and the larger sequence is that Sauron is very very close to coming back but hasn't yet

Having Sauron "show himself" in some form would ruin that effect because it would imply that Sauron has already returned in some capacity

Also Sauron would fucking kill Aragorn in a one on one fight, the only reason Isildur was able to kill Sauron was basically because he got lucky, Elendil got killed in like 2 seconds and he was an 8 foot tall warrior of legend

There would be no point to Sauron manifesting himself other than to say to Aragorn "lol im here btw"

>>86212786
this, plus they explicitly state in the movie that he cannot take physical form

>>86209887
>inb4 bookfags
Nigger he had a physical form in LoTR, he just didn't want to come out to play without the ring.

>>86212786
>There would be no point to Sauron manifesting himself other than to say to Aragorn "lol im here btw"

that's exactly something sauron would do
making his enemies think he's already back to his full power would demoralize them