11 Variants (Forms/Faces) Of Sauron In The Lord Of The Rings Lore - Explored In Detail

[Music] a siron may have been the big bad in The Lord of the Rings but he seemed mostly passive after all the dark lord never left his Tower in Mordor to enter the field nope he had armies Of Orcs And San do it for him this makes sense since he was mostly a spectral form at this point physically manifesting as a red eyee in Mordor the ring to held a part of Sauron Soul probably where the idea of H cruxes was born and thus was trying to get back to its Master does that mean the one ring is the true big bad let us know in the comments until then he about dark lord siron if you will he was one of many forms both fair and foul his Terror spreading across ages this was especially true after he forged the rings of power which ensured he would rule everyone if undefeated and if defeated would continue to exist siron wasn't how this dark lord started out after all he was one of the Maya just like Gandalf like Saruman he was a disciple of Al or Mahal as the daro called The God and His downfall was tragic for it was the classic Case Of The Road to Hell being paved with good intentions and destroyed by impatience let's start by looking at sir's OG form before we go into our explanation we have a very small request if you like our content please support us by subscribing to our Channel this is a small click for you but for us it means a lot thank you let's begin myON Al is like the heas of Arda AK K A Smith God and his disciple Myron learned all about the Forge from it good and trustworthy as eru had made him Myron loved order and despised chaos yet this proved to be his undoing he saw in the dark melor someone who had the will to reshape the world Myron wanted to dominate the minds of Middle Earth for what he perceived as their own benefit to this end he joined up and became melkor's Chief assistant the Vader if you will no wonder the fandom seems to love Sauron or perhaps that has more to do with his appearance in the rings of power as anatar we'll look at that later but for now let's look what Myron was like in the service of [Music] melor Sauron the servant of melor where Myron looked beautiful enough to deceive The Valor into thinking he was on their side Sauron as the elves named the servant of melor looked like a dark Abomination if his name is to be believed just like Myron Sauron too had all the powers of a Maya which can often be forgotten when writers write fanfiction about him and melor the origins of those stories lie in how Sauron tricked the Valar numerous times for melor helped him create the Orcs And when melor was captured evaded capture himself while keeping the dark operations going on Middle Earth for melor to re over when he returned such loyalty much wow when melor did return there were other Wars to be fought for example once melor stole fenor silmarilion the elves would come to middlee to reign vengance in that battle siron would gain notoriety as one of the worst of melkor's named servants a title he would soon share with many other titles and forms for example when malor went to wage Wars with the newly awakened race of men on Middle Earth zon took up the mantle against the elves which required him to turn into werewolf siron known simply as the wolf this was a dark form siron took after all experts say he couldn't turn fair and beautiful again but could still shape shift despite his Visage of anatar in the second age but all agree that siron could still shape shift here he' taken over the Elvish island of tall cion and turned it into tall in gaoth a Ka the Isle of werewolves during this Reign he had a vampire and The Sire of all werewolves as his Aid which seemed to work well until benan and Luan entered the picture yeah the first cross-racial couple in middlee who we've looked at in our love across the videos of the race had a runin with siron himself what happened in as such Baron was captured by siron when trying to travel through the captured aisle disguised as an a while he languished in the dungeons after his companion finrod had died to save him from a werewolf siron sent to attack them and get information out of them should arrive to rescue the hero on the Quest for the sil marilan but the Elven princess Luan herself at her side stood huan the Wolfhound of the valah such was the power of huan that it not only defeated all of sauron's servants but when the dark lord transformed himself into a werewolf and went toe-to-toe with Hanan he too tasted bitter defeat this resulted in him escaping the aisle he' captured disguised as a vampire which of course became sauron's next form sir's vampire guys if you think when Hanan let siron go it was a mistake leave a comment yes that's right the Wolfhound of the Valar let siron go guised as an intelligent bat siron flew away dripping blood after this the Future Dark Lord would go into hiding fans theorize this is because he was scared of melkor's Wrath at his defeat at the hands of hwan yet as we fans know Sauron wasn't gone forever now he would resurface after his master Was Defeated and carried away in Chains then he would plead for mercy in front of the victories the host of the West another mistake made by the good guys a they should have known the Maya was a turn coat when he refused out of Pride mind you to return to the utter West and face judgment from the Val instead he fled and hid somewhere in Middle Earth which seems to be hiso after all wasn't he hiding in the merkwood Fortress DOL gur during the quest with edor in The Hobbit the movies made it an entire subplot drawing from other Cannon sources giving us Galadriel at the height of her Ring's power driving siron out of there but that's us getting ahead of ourselves because when we reach The Hobbit we have syron's defeat in the second age yes we're entering the rings of power timeline which was the form siron took after he was done being a bat you ask well fans next we see him as a serpent Tolen uses serpents for both dragons and normal snakes the form that siron took on as a serpent during his fight with the valor's Wolfhound was also called a serpent this form was done by siron before Melco or morgoth was defeated in the first battle between the host of the West and the dark Val now buckle up because we're about to enter the second age of middlee when with melor out of the picture siron begins to form plans to take over sure some fans say that's in preparation for his Master his return but now we have siron playing the game as we saw him do in the rings of Po show albeit differently yes it's finally time to look at anatar The Giver of gifts now this is a long tale but we'll try to keep it short to begin with siron in the second age grew more powerful than morgoth ever was and took on titles such as lord of the earth and king of men after having fled he hid for five centuries and then reappeared in the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie here he began constructing his dreaded Tower barad dur and gathered up of the Servants of morgoth such as the Orcs And also began corrupting the race of men especially those that were native to Middle Earth such as the easterlings yet siron wanted the elves and their power under his command and thus be dawned the fair look of anatar or The Giver of gifts pretending According to some sources such as the unfinished Tales to be an agent of the Val waiting for the Maya to reach Middle Earth in this form he befriended the greatest Elvin Smiths of the time including Kell bimbo according to a few sources he even got the elves of gwi imir Dane under his sway leading gadriel and kelborn to leave the area to these elves he imparted the gift of the knowledge on how to forge the rings of power but secretly infused them with spells to make them subservient to the one ring that he forged in secrecy when he put it on however the elves became aware of his plans and unlike the nine mortal Kings who fell under siron spells and became Naz goul the three Elven Lords under the sky hid their Rings the saving Middle Earth the D Kings had nine rings too but siron couldn't use them to his ends as Beyond infecting them with an insatiable gold lust zon's Rings couldn't do much to the children of Mahal of course in their history this gold lust brought tremendous pain but for sauron's purposes the daro proved immune to his moves what happened next you ask let's see Sauron essentially became the master of all of Middle Earth except for the Elven King galad people these were the accursed years where siron gained the title dark lord until the descendants of ban and luian intervened yeah elon's Brothers Descendants the numor Kings beat siron defeated siron went back to Mordor to lick his wounds and plan his revenge as the second age Drew to a close saon once again Rose to power and called himself the king of men and this led to sauron's armored form this angered the reigning ruler of numor AR farzon who came to Middle Earth and demanded siron bend the knee yeah like Jon Snow now see siron was smart he took one look at the Army at his doors and decided nope can't beat that fair and square time to retort to trickery and the long game so donning a fair Visage he tried to flatter the king and pretended to be reluctant when the king took him hostage step one check now he could influence the working of the court from within he manipulated the king's court using the fear of mortality and the gift of eru and ensured that most of them became worshippers of morgath he even incited the king to attack valanor yet this is where his plans went Topsy Turvy for ero himself intervened drowning the island of numor and shaping the world so that only 11 ships could reach valanor ah so technically men can reside in valanor can daro or are lugus and gimly aimless sailing into the sunset forever back to Sauron though once the people of numor were dealt with either as trapped in debris by eru at the shores of venoro drowned Sauron once again fled to Middle Earth only to get news that said his temper a blaze a group of the surviving numenorian people who had stayed faithful to the Val were being led by elenil a man siron failed to turn to morgoth worship and they' established two kingdoms in Exile Gondor and aror right at sauron's doorstep wait if Gondor is a kingdom in Exile like thorin's blue m Kingdom then isn't Aragon still a king in Exile at the end of The Return of the King but with numor gun I suppose well let's stick to sauron's Tales of defeat for now it's time for the combined host of men and elves to once again Drive the point home that saon cannot win first it was Hanan then it was the host of the west then numor and now the last Alliance see siron was still weak from his defeat at the hands of eru gilgalad though had become stronger while saon was working in numor so naturally he and elendel teamed up and the last Alliance of men and elves marched on Mordor gilgalad and elendel sacrificed their lives to destroy sauron's physical body but the one ring remained which is when isor comes in and our favorite sword narel using The Unbroken version of the sword that was broken isor cut the one ring from siren's finger and defeated him siron didn't die as we know since isor couldn't throw the ring into the fires of Mount Doom and this is where we enter the events that would lead to The Hobbit from out of the darkness a necromancer has come Necromancer since the One Ring remained and saon had poured most of his power and will into it Sauron remained as a shadow then he resurfaced in ta 1000 in the Fortress of DOL gur in merkwood this was him as the Necromancer around this time the Maya were also sent to Middle Earth and while siron dismissed them as mere efforts by defeated imperialists Gandalf became his most hated enemy though of course saon was right about San as fans of Lord of the Rings know during this time the NZ goul too returned and annihilate the kingdoms of aror and greatly reduced the power of Gondor while the Kings went into Exile and became the Rangers other evil things became calamities such a smow who attacked Dale and deore suspecting syron's return Gandalf decided to investigate DOL gur in ta 2063 while in the movie siron was driven out of Mordor in the original Cannon siron fled DOL guler during Gandalf's poking around to conceal his identity this started the time period known as the watchful peace the dark lord returned in ta 2460 the same when smeel got his hands on the One Ring which would eventually drive him to become Gollum around the same time with the daro being driven out of Moria siron began to populate it with his dark folk eventually we'd reach the events of The Hobbit where gandal feared that sadom would Ally with Smog and use the dragon to attack rivendel and lloran to reestablish the foul Kingdom of Angar hence he convinced Thorin Oakenshield to take his company of Brave daro and one Hobbit Bilbo beggins to retake edore in this Quest Bilbo defeated golum in a battle of riddles without knowing it became the master of the One Ring which meant that he couldn't manipulate him to return to Sauron once Bilbo had to Beque the ring to his Heir Frodo we reached the events of the Lord of the Rings around the same time siron had returned to milkwood and was driven out of it by the white Council aka the Council of the Wizards and ruling elves in Middle Earth which led to him gaining the fractions of his strength he had without the one ring and establishing himself once again in Mordor first in secret and then openly it's him the eye eye of siron while it's unknown when the eye of siron was formed it's known that few could endure its terrible gaze the eye was established in the land of Mordor by siron in the movies and books and used as a banner while it was more tangible in the movies in the books this symbol of saon semi- omnipresence was pasted on all his banners and seen once when the clouds parted over Mordor the purpose of the eye to track the movements of Frodo Baggins the bearer of the One Ring Of course as we know Frodo and Sam with the help of the distraction offered by Aragon and his allies armies at the black gate managed to evade the eye golum doomed the ring to the fires of Mount Doom ending siron for good AKA reducing him to a shadow form siron was reduced to a great Shadow once the one ring was destroyed this was blown away by a great gust of wind and thus the Dark Lord that once terrorized Middle Earth ended up as a shapeless malice that fed on itself like teacher like student so are these all the forms of saon the dreaded well from a certain point of view but the rings of power did touch on another form Hal bran fans have called this a non-cannon change made by the show while in the books we see anatar or the lord of the gift Sauron who manipulates the elves in the show we see him as Hal brand and boy does Galadriel play an important part in his story first of all she swears to find him when she discovers his sigil in the dead body of finrod who is her brother so far close to Cannon then she realized this sigil was a stylized map of the Southlands thus realizing that siron intended to make the that is Stronghold and so he was trying as Hal brand sometime after Adar or the Lord father of the Orcs had struck him seeing how cruel siron was to the creatures he created siron then posing as a man fleeing orc raids and attacks carried on himself the Insignia of the King of the South LS which he claimed to have taken from a dead man which fans assume was the actual King of the Southlands perhaps even killed at syron's hands eventually siron comes upon a raft in the sundering Seas where he meets gadriel and after some Adventures the two reach numor here after some shenanigans Galadriel is convinced that siron is the rightful King of the Southlands and a secured passage for both him and her to Middle Earth with a numor Expedition they then defeat Adar whom siron would have killed but Galadriel captures instead then soon after sir's introduced as the rightful King haland he's injured and thus is taken by gadriel for Elven healing this results in him meeting killer brimo and starting the forging of the three rings of course gadriel discovers his true identity and he's forced to flee but the forging of the Rings continues and we all know how that ends so fans they there you have it some highlights of siren's Lifetime what do you think were his dark and evil plans better or worse than Vader or Voldemort let us know while we present a marvelous Verdi Professor tolken is the father of modern fantasy literature which would mean one can rationally assume that siron inspired quite a few dark Lords with his numerous forms siron seems like an opportunistic evil which is resilient like a pest despite his numerous defeats yet it seems Victory is forever out of the grasp of this lord of the gifts and wolves and many others perhaps that's because evil should never be allowed to gain a strong foot in the world and the professor wanted to tell 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