who is Sauron is he just a two-dimensional bad guy or is there something more going on there what's his history and what does he want hi everyone this is Robert welcome to in deep geek this video is brought to you by my wonderful patreon community I am now creating regular junior our Tolkien and Lord of the Rings content on this channel that's as well as the usual Game of Thrones West world and The Witcher videos Sauron is quite literally the Lord of the Rings we may think of the book as being about Frodo war the Fellowship or something else but Tolkien decided to name it after a character who we never actually see in real corporeal form or experience anything from his perspective he's a mystery we just always reminded that he is the bad guy he can't be allowed to win he seems the embodiment of evil and the antagonist of all that is good but who really is Sauron he has a long backstory in the appendices to the Lord of the Rings and in The Silmarillion so who is he what does he want what drives him let's start at the beginning Saren was one of them my are a sort of angelic being created to help shape the world my are our magical powerful immortal and spiritual so not restricted to one physical form something which will become important later on in Sauron story as we'll see we know a few other my are actually particularly the five wizards cerumen Gandalf radagast and the blue wizards they too were spiritual beings long before they were made flesh and Sauron started out as actually pretty good then he was called my ron which means the admirable he was one of the most powerful my are and particularly skilled as a Smith he was a great craftsman we don't know huge amounts about his character back then that he was good and creative and importantly loved order and perfection he was such a good craftsman because he didn't settle for second best he always wanted better I'm sure his workshop was immaculate and the quality of his end products worthy of marvel he hated waste of course a love of order and perfection are all well and good when combined with an apparently incorruptible good nature but it turned out that Myron was not incorruptible enter Morgoth the original Big Bad in Tolkien's legendarium who saw in myron a potential powerful ally he corrupted him and turned him into his most loyal left tenant and to start with spy Myron kept his change of allegiance of secret and fed intelligence to Morgoth it was only when more Agathe established himself in middle-earth that Myron declared himself also quitting Valinor and taking his place at Morgoth side that's when Myron became known as Sauron Myron as we've said means admirable clearly that was no longer my appropriate name for a traitor and rebel starting with the elves those opposed to him instead started calling him Sauron which means the abominable the opposite of his original name during the wars that followed in the first age of middle-earth sarens greatest role was in leading the fight against the elves while his master went off to try to corrupt the newly awakened humans saren was initially successful capturing the elven island of tol
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