The History of Sauron [COMPILATION] | Tolkien Explained

Who is the better villain - Sauron or Morgoth?

What makes Sauron so terrifying is that he’s so intelligent, so driven and so ambitious. He’s not some brain dead villan, he’s elite

Valuable lesson I learned from Sauren's story : Try again after every failure.

Morgoth Defeated (Sauron): ”Fine, I’II do it myself”

I hear people say that Sauron is a villain with no depth at all. In reality he is such a intricate and interesting charakter.

My headcanon for why Sauron is shown as a giant eye in the movies is that it isn't actually him, just a magical projection of his will.

Huán the Hound was really about to make LoTR trilogy a pretty short campaign what a lad.

Who knew so much death and destruction could've been prevented had Sauron got therapy for OCD.

He did Celebrimbor so damn dirty. Easily one of the darkest things he's done, by displaying his body on a spike as a war banner.

I dont say this enough but i really like the map graphic on how they move over the land.

The fact that the warriors of the First Age were putting up a good fight against Morgoth proves that they were much more powerful than the people of later Ages who feared the servant Sauron so much.

Others have said it, but your Gollum impression is absolutely spot on

Terrific job creating this compilation. It's amazing that anyone was able to withstand Sauron's power across the three ages. What a fool Saruman was to think he could be among the few to overcome Sauron.

Your finest creation yet. You have successfully compiled and explicated Sauron's arc through the entire history masterfully. A great achievement. Huzzah!

I learned a lot of new things, I never knew Sauron was under Aule before defecting to Melkor. That makes his knowledge of forging the rings of power make so much more sense.

In addition to being a great reformer who would bring law and order in a scenario of cultural decay after the War of Wrath, I think Sauron saw himself as a Promethean figure who would lift Humanity out of cultural prehistory and technological ignorance: The Silmarillion says that the men of the East and South built cities of stone and had access to metallurgical knowledge. And bringing economic benefits: he proved himself a good economist in Númenor by multiplying the Island's wealth. Furthermore, he had to see himself as a deity of a great world unification: a single theocratic government, a technocratic political-economic system and a religious reformer to bring true belief through dogmatic ideas.

As great as Sauron is I think his further backstory in the first age of being under Aule and later Morgoth adds so much more to him. Almost a twist humble origins thing before he became the bane of the 2nd and 3rd ages.

Morgoth may have been the original, and indeed he was more powerful Sauron, however, learned from all Melkor's mistakes. Indeed, he was only bested due to the intervention of Iluvatar, both in Numenor and with Gollum's fall into the fires. He is evil at its most dangerous shape, the shape which hides itself as good, and that which does not allow its hatred and malice to overcome its cunning, and what a cunning Suaron has Edit: Regardless of what anyone things about Shadow of War, it has by far the best design for Sauron's armored form

That was great. By the time I started getting into Tolkien I got sick and it can be difficult to keep the names straight to say the least. Tolkien was so detailed and built a history as long as ours so it can be a little much.

If only this had been used as a background story for Amazon's The Rings Of Power series. Great job with putting together this narrative from many different sources!