Why is Sauron visible...
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...when wearing the ring? (I'm referring to the movie's opening scene, didn't check the books yet)
I havent read the books in a while, but if I remember correctly powerfull beings do not become invisible while wearing the ring.
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...when wearing the ring? (I'm referring to the movie's opening scene, didn't check the books yet)
Near as I remember, Sauron had a physical presence before he lost the ring. I can't remember why the loss of the ring forced him to lose his physical form. From an internal company e-mail November, 2001 -- "Would the person who stole the ethics training manual from the class last Friday please return it."
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...when wearing the ring? (I'm referring to the movie's opening scene, didn't check the books yet)
Sauron lost his physical form when the ring was cut from his finger at the end of the Second Age. The Silmarillion, Of the rings of Power & the Third Age reads:"Isildur cut the Ruling Ring from the hand of Sauron and took it for his own. Then Sauron was for that time vanquished and he forsook his body, and his spirit hid in far places; and he took no visible shape for many long years.":eek: JohnJ http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk
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I havent read the books in a while, but if I remember correctly powerfull beings do not become invisible while wearing the ring.
I misread the original question. I believe that the purpose of the ring was not to make the wearer invisible, but to control the other rings of power. Sauron invested most of his power into the ring at the time of it's creation. When the ring was lost, Sauron faded out of the physical world. The ring, however, retains a connection to Sauron. Therefore, when someone wears the ring after Sauron's death, the wearer is shifted into the spriritual realm where Sauron exists, and is invisible to the physical world. To rephrase, the wearer is sucked away from the physical plane with the side-effect of becoming invisible to normal people. That's as good a guess as I can offer at this time. From an internal company e-mail November, 2001 -- "Would the person who stole the ethics training manual from the class last Friday please return it."