@deaditegonzo: Based off what ? A broken sword defeated him where're as Voldemort is vastly more powerful than his sword.
There is a total difference in scale. Gandolf and Sauron are both Maiar, servents of the gods, Valar, who serve the one true god Eru. All of those entities were there at the beginning of time. You see how Gandolf fell through flame and shadow, and died and then just came back? They are basically Angels with divine purpose. Sauron is the servent of Melkor, later known as Morgoth after he fell, he was chief among the Valar (he is basically Satan).
The Harry Potter characters are basically "humans" who can do magic. And their magic is quite flashy, but the Maiar and Valar of the LotR universe are all basically gods. They were there at the beginning of the universe and will be there in the final battle when the universe ends. This is all canon. Sauron stood against the Numenoreans, from whom the Dunedain (Aragorn and his line are Dunedains) are descended. The Numenoreans are humans, who through their valor against Morgoth were raised by the gods themselves. Sauron eventually lead to their downfall.
Also, with his Ring, which was imbued with his will and his power, he is essentially unstoppable. The Maiar couldnt do it. The Valar could but they abandoned Middle Earth.
Now, the instance you are pointing out, where the ring is cut from his finger. Many already explained the sword, but not the context. The Elves and Humans of Middle Earth have throughout the narrative done the impossible so to speak. This is due to the mythical qualities of the stories themselves, which although Tolkien said otherwise, clearly reflect the Bible.
Just to reference something everyone knows: Greek Mythology. In Greek Mythology, Odyseus outwits and defeats Poseidon on multiple occasions, does this automatically make Poseidon a weakling? Another example. Death in Greek Mythology was essentially a force even greater than the gods. It was personified like a god, but like the fates, it was not subject to their wills. Heracles WRESTLES DEATH when he drunkenly kills his friend, does this make Death seem fragile. It was a mythic feat done for narrative purposes.
I have no doubt in my mind that Aragorn could also slay Voldemort, because the scale is totally different.
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