The Lord of the Rings : why Sauron became evil

The Direct explains why Sauron, the main antagonist of the Rings of Power series and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is on the path of evil.

As the portal noted, season 2 of The Ring of Power began to reveal the backstory of Sauron, but the villainous origin of the dark lord of Middle-earth was never explained to the viewer.

The author of the material turned to the primary source – the work of J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion (The Silmarillion) – to explain the reason for the emergence of Sauron.

In Tolkien’s works there is a certain Eru Iluvatar – in essence God, the creator of everything – who first created the Ainur (disembodied spirits). After Eru created Ea (think universe) and Arda (Earth). The Ainur that descended on Arda are called Valar and Maiar. All of them are capable of taking physical form. The latter serve the former for a common goal – to organize the world for elves and humans according to Eru’s will.

One of the Valar, Melkor (later Morgoth), rebelled against Eru’s plan, like Satan against God, and so did some of the Maiar under him. Among the latter was Myron, the future Sauron.

The author of the article draws attention to the words of Galadriel in season 1 of The Ring of Power : Nothing is born evil . This, as the piece suggests, confirms that the series is committed to the source material.

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The Direct states, Myron/Sauron is not the personification of evil, but his love of order turned into an obsession and led to Morgoth, the greatest of the Ainur, who fell to evil because of his desire for control and destruction. It was then that Myron, as Morgoth’s lieutenant, was given the name Sauron – meaning The Abhorred.

In the end, Morgoth lost, and Sauron fled to Middle-earth, but did not give up his ideas. This precedes the beginning of the events of The Ring of Power, The Hobbit trilogy and The Lord of the Rings.

The portal also quotes an excerpt from Tolkien’s letters about Sauron:

He went the way of all tyrants: he started well, at least in that, wishing to arrange everything according to his reason, he at first took into account the welfare (economic) of other inhabitants of the Earth. However, in his pride and lust for power he went further than the human tyrants, being by origin an immortal (angelic) spirit.

In the final article, the author noted that he allows Sauron’s backstory to be changed in Rings of Power .

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