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 ...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson's film adaptations, the Dark Lord Sauron was an embodiment of pure evil. Though he once had the noble intention of bringing order to ...

Reanna Gonzalez received her MFA in screenwriting and has been writing movie and television sceenplays for 5 years. She was mentored be Tony Award-winning playwright, Mark Medoff. She spends her free ...

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Morgoth looms over The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Though the War of Wrath ended with Morgoth’s defeat, his touch spreads across all of Arda into the Second Age and beyond. Morgoth, also ...

Whether you still think of him as the giant, flaming eye from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, or have fully committed to Charlie Vickers' portrayal as Halbrand in The Lord of the ...

Over Zoom from London, where he’s currently shooting The Rings of Power, we asked the actor about his villainous journey and where it’s headed next. Polygon: In what terms did you first discuss ...

The Rings of Power‘s season one finale revealed Charlie Vickers’ Halbrand is no man of the Southlands. He’s not even a man. He’s the infamous Maia Dark Lord himself, Sauron. What’s it like to play ...