12 Names of SAURON That Every Lord Of The Rings Fan Must Know.

Sauron is the title character and main antagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In the same work, he is identified as the Necromancer mentioned in Tolkien’s earlier novel The Hobbit. In Tolkien’s The Silmarillion he is also described as 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 sate