It was Smeagol's friend, Deagol who fell into the river while the two were fishing at least 500 years before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. Gollum, aka Smeagol helped (though unwillingly) to destroy the Ring, and was one of those to find it in the first place) He was Maia before his corruption, and even at the end of the Third Age, he was still considered a being not of the lower order (the Elves, Men and Dwarves we see). So no, it is not correct to say Frodo killed Sauron, because Sauron did not die. But if the Ring is destroyed, he will lose most of his strength and power, and will diminish and his rising again can never be foreseen. I can't find the exact quote in the books yet, but there was a particular passage by one of the Wise Ones that said, if Sauron regains the Ring, he will have power to cover all the land in a second darkness, the ending of which cannot be forseen by anyone. Notice, nothing was ever said of him being destroyed or killed. If it were damaged or destroyed, so too would be Sauron's strength and power. In this way, Sauron's fate became bound to that of the One Ring. He concentrated within the Ring a great part of his own fëa (soul). It was said he put most of his power into the Ring, and thus when it perished, he was vanquished, but he did not actually die.
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