The Mouth of Sauron, Queen Berúthiel, & the Black Númenóreans | Tolkien Explained
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Published 2021-11-27
The Mouth of Sauron would become a lieutenant and emissary of Sauron, the Ringwraiths among his most trusted servants, and Queen Berúthiel would be among the most mysterious rulers of Men ever. It is said her 10 cats were used to spy on her behalf - and that she could communicate with them and even read their memories.
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All Comments (21)
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Who is your favorite of the Black Númenóreans? And what other topics would you like to see covered by the new year?
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The fact that The Mouth Of Sauron has forgotten his real name just shows the corruption of Sauron
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I didn't even know there was a queen Béruthiel just shows that there's always something to surprise you from Tolkien
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The way Beruthiel is described kinda gives me the impression that she was based on someone Tolkien both knew well, and disliked thoroughly.
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Its a true testament to the scope of Tolkien's work that you have produced an in depth video once a week for two years and are far from running out of content. As always, great video!
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Queen Beruthiel's one of the creepiest characters in Tolkien's Legendarium.
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Tolkien contemplated to continue the story of these Black Numenoreans in his unpublished project The New Shadow, which was about a secret cult among Men that worshipped Melkor in the Fourth Age.
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Tolkien has intimated that with the Ringwraiths only some were bad when given their ring (And therefore being corrupted and turned into a wraith fairly quickly) while others were good resisting the their rings for several hundred years before finally succumbing to them.
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How much I desire a faithful adaption of this story to screen. Amazon crushes my soul
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The meeting between Gandalf and the Mouth is so epic. Goes to show how sophisticated Sauron's evil was and not simply one note and obvious. An enemy of substance who is articulate.
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> solitary > loveless > nefarious > cats lady Man, Tolkien was ahead of his time.
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This is utterly unrelated to the subject of the video, but Tolkien, thank you for describing Sauron as attractive. You and the artists do a service to us all.
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I always imagined the mouth of Sauron dying when the tower fell, or withering away after Saurons power was reduced to nothing
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I still think what Sauron did to Numenor, his greatest and most powerful enemy, was his greatest victory even though it came at a price. It is testament to the fact he is far more dangerous than Morgoth.
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The Black Numenoreans were successfully integrated into my forces.
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The cat lady, Queen Berúthiel, really reminded me of the fact that Tolkien took inspiration from Scandinavian culture! (goddess Freya had her chariot pulled by cats, didn’t she?)
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This really just sounds like Tolkien had an intense fear of cat ladies.
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Something tells me Tolkien wasn't a cat person ....
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I can imagine Sauron in Númenor being abit like Grima Wormtongue on steroids 😂
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I'm both amused and horrified at art that depicts the Mouth of Sauron looking like a Tyrant out of Resident Evil. To me, it makes sense that someone that evil, that close to Sauron, wouldn't even look human anymore.
