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[LOTR] How did Sauron recover the One Ring if his body died during the Númenorian invasion of Valinor?

Wouldn't he be wearing the One Ring and when his body died, the Ring would have sank to the bottom of the ocean if he was on a ship or be buried under rocks if he made landfall? And if he left the One Ring in Middle Earth, why didn't someone try to steal it (such as one of his soldiers)?
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His body was destroyed but his spirit was still powerful enough to bear it that time.

The reason the Ring was lost during the War of the Last Alliance was by that time Sauron was weakened to the point where his spirit couldn't keep the ring. The Ring was pretty much all he had left of his original power by then.