Sauron, the fallen Maia, former Lieutenant of the Dark Lord Morgoth, and former wielder of the One Ring of Power, has handed away after a short a number of hundreds of years of being a non-corporeal spirit certain to the tower of Barad-dûr. He was… very, very outdated.

Reports that on this present day as recounted in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King—March 25 in the year TA 3019—have confirmed that Sauron, aka Annatar, aka Gorthaur, aka Mairon, perished amid a skirmish between the Orcs of Mordor and the Army of the West, hosted by the newly revealed successor to the Kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor, Aragorn II. Whether or not Sauron was straight defeated as a result of battle or due to one thing else fully unrelated, due to the work of two halflings noticed on the scene, has but to be decided.

Born on the daybreak of Time itself, Sauron was one of many biggest of the heavenly hosts of the Maiar, the religious beings tasked with serving to the Valar form the world of Arda. Better recognized for his exploits with the fallen Valar Melkor, who would turn out to be the primary Dark Lord, Sauron’s early profession was outlined as a Lieutenant within the Wars of Beleriand, the place Sauron supported his grasp’s wars towards the Noldor elves till Morgoth’s expulsion into the void. Ascending to the title of Dark Lord himself after hundreds of years recovering in secret, Sauron shot to true infamy within the guise of Annatar, when he satisfied Elves of Eregion to assist forge a assortment of magic rings, gifted to envoys throughout the mortal species of Middle-earth. It was ultimately revealed that Sauron cast a singular, dominating ring of energy, One above all others, via which to regulate wielders of the opposite Rings of Power. However, his plans had been laid to destroy by an alliance between the Elves and Men of Middle-earth, resulting in the embarrassing second the place Sauron misplaced each the One Ring and his corporeal kind.

Forever remembered for his accounting in The Lord of the Rings for this era—a large eye of pure evil manifested atop Barad-dûr—his well-known hits embrace perceiving issues via palantíri, whispering dire portents of destruction within the minds of Men, and his collaboration with the Istari Saruman the White. He’s survived by the damaged hosts of Mordor, final seen fleeing the Black Gate on the fields of Morannon, and our ideas exit to his followers at this unlucky time.

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