Sauron (pronounced /ˈsaʊrɒn/, Quenya: /sawrɔn/, literal meaning: "Abhorred" ) is the titular character and the principal antagonist of the fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
In the same work, he is revealed to be the same character as "the Necromancer" from Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. In Tolkien's The Silmarillion (published after The Lord of...
Sauron
Character Created By
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
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