Before we get into Sauron, it’s best to start with his predecessor and the first Dark Lord of Middle-earth: Morgoth. First known as Melkor, he was a Valar—or one of the most powerful beings in Arda.

English high fantasy inventor J.R.R. Tolkien named The Lord of the Rings, his three-volume 1954 novel, after Sauron, but Sauron was actually not the story's biggest threat. Lord of the Rings' Sauron ...

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One of the biggest differences between The Rings of Power and The Lord of the Rings trilogy is that Sauron (Charlie Vickers) is at the forefront of the Prime Video show's story. Season 1 featured ...

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Author J. R. R. Tolkien wrote entire lexicons of information about his made-up universe known colloquially as Middle-earth, detailing numerous events, histories, and characters that take place over ...

The release of the first image of a black hole prompted a comparison to the popular Lord of the Rings film series, including by one of the co-discoverers. Jessica Dempsey, a co-discoverer and deputy ...

The distinctive marks on the newly identified insects resemble the baleful eye of Sauron, the dark lord in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series. By Chris Stanford A new genus of butterfly, with dark, ...