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description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Sauron Anita Blake Ra's al Ghul Orochimaru Vecna Reiko the Zombie Shop Nerissa Faust VIII Amy Madison Merlin Nora Fries Undead Knights Velsharoon Arawn Death-Lord Bloodwynd Maya Horned King Suma-ket Effron the Sorcerer. Excerpt: Sauron (pronounced ) is the primary antagonist and titular character of the epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. In the same work he is revealed to be the same character as the Necromancer from Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. In Tolkien's The Silmarillion (published posthumously by Tolkien's son Christopher Tolkien) he is also revealed to have been the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord Morgoth. Tolkien noted that 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 cosmological myth prefixed to The Silmarillion explains how the supreme being Eru initiated his creation by bringing into being innumerable spirits the offspring of his thought who were with him before anything else had been made. The being later known as Sauron thus originated as an immortal (angelic) spirit. In his origin Sauron therefore perceived the Creator directly. As Tolkien noted: Sauron could not of course be a 'sincere' atheist. Though one of the minor spirits created before the world he knew Eru according to his measure. In the terminology of Tolkien's invented language of Quenya these angelic spirits were called Ainur (sg. Ainu). Those who entered the physical world were called Valar (sg. Vala) especially the most powerful ones. The lesser beings of the same race of whom Sauron was one were called Maiar (sg. Maia). In Tolkien's letters the author noted that Sauron was of course a 'divine' per...
language: English
title: Fictional Necromancers: Sauron, Anita Blake, Ra's Al Ghul, Orochimaru, Vecna, Reiko the Zombie Shop, Nerissa, Faust VIII, Amy Madison, Merlin
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