Sauron overran Eregion, killed Celebrimbor, and seized the Seven and the Nine Rings of Power. Enraged, Sauron initiated a great war and conquered much of the land west of Anduin. The Elves detected his influence when he put on the One Ring, and removed their Rings. He then secretly forged the One Ring, to rule all other rings, in the volcanic Mount Doom in Mordor. With Sauron's assistance, the Elven-smiths forged the Rings of Power. To seduce the Elves into his service, Sauron assumed a fair appearance as Annatar, 'Lord of Gifts', befriended the Elven-smiths of Eregion, led by Celebrimbor, and counselled them in arts and magic.

The Rings of Power in the Second Age ДЄbout 500 years into the Second Age, Sauron reappeared, intent on taking over Middle-earth and ruling it as a God-King. After Morgoth's defeat, Sauron made himself the second Dark Lord. EГ¤rendil sailed to the Blessed Realm, and the Valar moved against Morgoth in the War of Wrath he was defeated and cast into the Outer Void beyond the world, but again Sauron escaped. LГєthien destroyed the tower and rescued Beren from the dungeons. Sauron, transformed into a werewolf, battled Huan who took him by the throat he was defeated and left as a huge vampire bat. LГєthien and Huan the Wolfhound came to this fallen stronghold to save the imprisoned Beren, LГєthien's lover. Sauron directed the war against the Elves, conquering the Elvish fortress of Minas Tirith (not to be confused with the later city in Gondor of the same name) on the isle of Tol Sirion in Beleriand. Melkor escaped back to Middle-earth with the Silmarils. He hid in Middle-earth, repaired Angband, and began breeding Orcs. The Valar made war on Melkor and captured him, but Sauron escaped. By the time Elves awoke in the world, Sauron had become Melkor's lieutenant and was given command over the new stronghold of Angband. Sauron became Morgoth's capable servant, helping him in all the 'deceits of his cunning'. Sauron openly joined the Valar's enemy, now renamed Morgoth. Sauron left the Blessed Realm and went to Middle-earth, the central continent of Arda, where Melkor had established his stronghold. Melkor soon destroyed Almaren, and the Valar moved to the Blessed Realm of Valinor, still not perceiving Sauron's treachery. Sauron became a spy for Melkor in Almaren. Sauron was drawn to the power of Melkor, who attracted him by seeming to have power to 'effect his designs quickly and masterfully', as Sauron hated disorder. In Beleriand, he was called Gorthu 'Mist of Fear' and Gorthaur 'The Cruel' in Sindarin, another of Tolkien's invented languages. Sauron served AulГ« the Vala Smith, acquiring much knowledge he was at first called Mairon ('The Admirable', in Tolkien's invented language of Quenya) until he joined Melkor. Sauron's fall in the First Age Servant of AulГ« So began 'the evils of the world', which Sauron continued. The Vala Melkor (later called Morgoth) rebelled against Eru, breaking the cosmic Music that Eru had used in the world's creation with discord. He was of a 'far higher order' than the Maiar who later came to Middle-earth as the Wizards, such as Gandalf and Saruman. In his origin, Sauron therefore perceived the Creator directly. The AinulindalГ«, the cosmological myth prefixed to The Silmarillion, explains how the supreme being Eru initiated his creation by bringing into being innumerable good, immortal, angelic spirits, the Ainur, including Sauron, one of the lesser Ainur, the Maiar. Sauron is briefly seen in a similar form in Peter Jackson's film trilogy, which otherwise show him as a disembodied, flaming Eye.ДЇurther information: History of Arda and Decline and fall in Middle-earth Before the world's creation He is depicted as a humanoid figure in animated films of The Lord of the Rings. Commentators have compared Sauron to the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, and to Balor of the Evil Eye in Celtic mythology. Tolkien, while denying that absolute evil could exist, stated that Sauron came as near to a wholly evil will as was possible. Sauron appears most often as 'the Eye', as if disembodied. 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'. The Silmarillion describes him as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. In the same work, he is identified as the 'Necromancer' of Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor and has the ambition of ruling the whole of Middle-earth. Sauron (pronounced / Л€ s aКЉ r Й’ n/ ) is the title character and the primary antagonist, through the forging of the One Ring, of J.

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