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Sauron
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Sauron () is the title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor. He has the ambition of ruling the whole of Middle-earth using the power of the One Ring, which he has lost and seeks to recapture. In the same work, he is identified as the "Necromancer" of Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. The Silmarillion describes him as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that the Ainur, the "angelic" powers of his constructed myth, "were capable of many degrees of error and failing", but by far the worst
Sauron is the main villain in J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings*, a dark lord who rules the land of Mordor and seeks to conquer all of Middle-earth using a magical ring called the One Ring that he lost and desperately wants to recover. He matters as a central figure in one of the most influential fantasy works ever written, representing the archetypal evil force that the story's heroes must oppose.
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22 sectionsContents
- Fictional history
- Before the world's creation
- First Age
- Second Age
- Third Age
- Appearance
- Physical body
- Eye of Sauron
- Concept and creation
- Analysis
- Embodiment of evil
- Classically reptilian
- Destructive Dracula-figure
- Celtic Balor of the Evil Eye
- Antagonist
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Sauron () is the title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor. He has the ambition of ruling the whole of Middle-earth using the power of the One Ring, which he has lost and seeks to recapture. In the same work, he is identified as the "Necromancer" of Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. The Silmarillion describes him as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that the Ainur, 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". Sauron appears most often as "the Eye", as if disembodied.
Tolkien, while denying that absolute evil could exist, stated that Sauron came as near to a wholly evil will as was possible. Commentators have compared Sauron to the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, and to Balor of the Evil Eye in Irish mythology. Sauron is briefly seen in a humanoid form in Peter Jackson's film trilogy, which otherwise shows him as a disembodied, flaming Eye.