@scarbearer:
I am going to go with Gandalf's most famous. Fighting the Balrog. He fought that thing while falling several miles. Survived the impact at the bottom. Continued to fight with the thing for several days (I don't remember how long exactly. The movie doesn't state exactly and I'd have to look it up in the book). Finally managed to killed. Died of exhaustion. Hung out in heaven for a bit and realized, "Crap I those dumb-asses are lost without me" stuffed his soul back in his dead body. Healed and rejuvenated it stronger than before.
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What?
First, he fought the weakest Balrog ever, Durin's bane. The strongest Balrog, the equal to Sauron, General and lord of the Balrog's Gothmog was STABBED by a regular blade and died because a RIVER quenched his flames..
"There he became weary from the strangling heat and was beaten down by a great demon, even Gothmog lord of Balrogs, son of Melko. But lo! Ecthelion, whose face was of the pallor of grey steel and whose shield-arm hung limp at his side, strode above him as he fell; and that Gnome drave at the demon, yet did not give him his death, getting rather a wound to his sword-arm that his weapon left his grasp. Then leapt Ecthelion lord of the Fountain, fairest of the Noldoli, full at Gothmog even as he raised his whip, and his helm that had a spike upon it he drave into that evil breast, and he twined his legs about his foeman's thighs; and the Balrog yelled and fell forward; but those two dropped into the basin of the king's fountain which was very deep. There found that creature his bane; and Ecthelion sank steel-laden into the depths, and so perished the lord of the Fountain after fiery battle in cool waters"
"Of the deeds of desperate valour there done, by the chieftains of the noble houses and their warriors, and not least by Tuor, much is told in The Fall of Condolin: of the battle of Ecthelion of the Fountain with Gothmog Lord of Balrogs in the very square of the King, where each slew the other, and of the defence of the tower of Turgon by the people of his household, until the tower was overthrown: and mighty was its fall and the fall of Turgon in its ruin"
"Ecthelion 'was that lord of the house of the Fountain, who had the fairest voice and was most skilled in musics of all the Gondothlim. He won renown for ever by his slaying of Gothmog son of Melko, whereby Tuor was saved from death but Ecthelion was drowned with his foe in the king's fountain.'"
Gothmog 'was a son of Melko and the ogress Fluithuin and his name is Strife-and-hatred, and he was Captain of the Balrogs and lord of Melko's hosts ere fair Ecthelion slew him at the taking of Gondolin - From The Book of the Lost Tales, Chapter III.
Let's highlight key notes.
"There he became weary from the strangling heat and was beaten down by a great demon, even Gothmog lord of Balrogs, son of Melko. But lo! Ecthelion, whose face was of the pallor of grey steel and whose shield-arm hung limp at his side, strode above him as he fell;
"Ecthelion 'was that lord of the house of the Fountain, who had the fairest voice and was most skilled in musics of all the Gondothlim. He won renown for ever by his slaying of Gothmog son of Melko, whereby Tuor was saved from death but Ecthelion was drowned with his foe in the king's fountain.'"-From The Book of Lost Tales II, Chapter 3.
He drowned in the River (which is the fountain). If the general of the Balrogs can be killed by a river, if the son of Melkor/Morgoth can be killed by a river,
So, if the son of a guy who can blow up stars is killed by a river, the Death Eaters can use water spells on him.
You also said Gandalf DECIDED to go back into his body. False. It was not his time yet and under the power of Eru did he come back, not his own power.
I'm not debating for either side, I'm just correcting your inaccuracies. I do not know who wins or not.
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