6th Villain

And the 6th villain is:













Sauron


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Sauron

Points: 68

# of voters: 5

Range: 11th - 1st place

“One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them”
-J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”

Sauron is the main antagonist in the very famous book trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien. In fact, in the book Sauron is called the Lord of the Rings. So therefore the books are all about him (unless you believe that it is all about hobbits). He is the most powerful villain that you never see. This is because the main characters in the book never actually get to fight or even meet Sauron. In the books he has no human qualities, unlike most other villains on this list, Sauron is mainly cool solely due to his power and might. He is the larges threat to the land of Middle-earth. The whole trilogy is about destroying Sauron by destroying his life-force that is held in the One Ring.

Lets go back to the beginning. Sauron was a spirit like being called a Maia. The Maia were beings that where the servants of the Godlike beings Vala who create things and races in the world. Sauron later was lead to evil by the Dark Vala Morgoth (aka Middle-earth’s Satan). Morgoth was defeated by the other Vala and Sauron hid in Middle-earth until the next age. 1,000 years later, he appeared again and tricked the elves into making rings of great power. He gave the elves three, the dwarves seven, and the humans nine. But unknown to everyone but himself, in his land of Mordor, he created a master ring. This “One Ring” was made by the volcano fires of his Mount Doom. He poured his life-force and power into the ring. With this ring he could corrupt the other rings bending their wielders power he suit his own means. With this power he almost conquered all of Middle-earth. That is until in a battle Prince Isildur got a lucky shot at Sauron. With his father’s sword, Isildur cut off Sauron’s finger that held the ring. With the ring gone, Sauron disappeared and hid until he could reclaim physical form.

(hold on, let me catch my breath)

This only leads up to the beginning of the trilogy. 2,000 years later Sauron is back in the form of a giant fire-like eye (so all you would have to do is pour pepper on him to defeat him, the hero’s never thought of that though). He reassembles all his armies and prepares to take back Middle-earth. He only needs one thing to make him plans succeed, that blasted ring he lost. So as Sauron looks for the ring, our heroes plus a bunch of hobbits try to bring the ring to Mordor (which is where Sauron is so it wasn’t a full proof plan) to throw it into the volcano of Mount Doom where it can be destroyed. At the same time, the ring, which is part of Sauron, tries to get the other against each other and tries to get back to its true owner.

However, Sauron doesn’t actually do anything in the books but give orders to his powerful minions, though he does deceive people into joining him. So why make the list? Well like I said, his power alone can get him on the list. When someone comes back after 2,000 years in the shape of an eye and then everyone wets themselves, you know he’s powerful. Without him, we wouldn’t have one of the best fantasy book series of all time. His evil makes the books. Also, he counts as evil and a good villain because he can manipulate, corrupt, deceive, and control people through the power of his ring as the heroes transport it. He can make several plans at once to conquer different parts of the world at the same time. He also can scare the crap out of an army just by shining a scary light at them.

Character flaws? He’s just a giant eye. And the biggest flaw of all, he was taken down by hobbits. Hobbits!