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 the Rings but begun decades before), he is also revealed to have been the c...
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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 the Rings but begun decades before), he is also revealed to have been the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that the “angelic” powers of his constructed myth “were capable of many degrees of error and failing”, but by far the worst was “the absolute Satanic rebellion and evil of Morgoth and his satellite Sauron.”
The cosmological myth prefixed to the The Silmarillion explains how Eru, “the One”, initiated his creation by bringing into being innumerable spirits, “the offspring of his thought," who were thus with him before anything else had been made. The being later known as Sauron thus...
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