The Story of Sauron - The Lord of the Rings - The Lord of the Rings Universe - See U in History

The Story of Sauron - The Lord of the Rings - The Lord of the Rings Universe - See U in History

Art: Clayton Inloco
Color: Rod Fernandes

#lordoftherings #SeeUinHistory #History #MythologyExplained

[PUNISHERMANIA]

You don't really see him too much, but when you do, it's always a terrifying scene to see, also you feel his malice and evil presence all the time.

[Adventures-cbsz]

8 min video, and yet more accurate and entertaining than a 1 billion dollar eight episode TV show.

[myfriendisaac]

A fantastic villain in the world of literature! Great video + illustrations 👏🏾💯🎨

[rafaelgustavo]

In addition to being a great reformer who would bring law and order in a scenario of cultural decay after the War of Wrath, I think Sauron saw himself as a Promethean figure who would lift Humanity out of cultural prehistory and technological ignorance: The Silmarillion says that the men of the East and South built cities of stone and had access to metallurgical knowledge.

And bringing economic benefits: he proved himself a good economist in Númenor by multiplying the Island's wealth.

Furthermore, he had to see himself as a deity of a great world unification: a single theocratic government, a technocratic political-economic system and a religious reformer to bring true belief through dogmatic ideas.

This religious engineering reminds me (in some ways) of Gnosticism: a liberating god (Melkor) to rid rational beings of "Archons" (Valar) from a "Demiurgic monster" (Eru) who imprisoned everyone in a world of war and death. Interesting that Sauron spoke this of Melkor in the Second Age, but later he claimed to be Melkor in the Third Age.

[DrakariZargon]

I love how you summarize a better story than Amazon with "The rings of power"

[DingbatToast]

The epic tale of Sauron is beautifully encapsulated in the ancient song from the Southlands.
"Sauron and Galadriel sitting in a tree, Kay Eye Ess Ess Eye En Gee"

[Erikjust]

Okay that is a bit different from how i remember the lore...
First of Sauron didn´t forge the 19 rings for humans, elves and Dwarfs that wasn´t his plan at the beginning.
At the start he only wanted to corrupt the elves and the three rings where forged without the assistance of Sauron, so technically he didn´t forge those.
It was only after he recaptured the 16 rings that he distributed them amongst humans and dwarfs.
Also Gil-Galad and Elendil killed Sauron in battle, and Isildur cut of the ring from the dead body of Sauron claiming it as weregild for his dead father.
The elves advised against this, but there was no "cast it into the fire, destroy it!", at most it was "we don´t think taking the ring is a good idea." But nothing else.

Also the disembodied spirit of Sauron did NOT flee back to Mordor... it went to Mirkwood where it would later become the necromancer.
Also Sauron DID have a body, Gollum has seen it, he mentions in a conversation between him Frodo and Sam that the Black Lord only has four fingers on one of his hands, but that it was enough.

So Sauron DID have a physical body at the time.

Also slight nitpick you show the Peter Jackson version of the Balrog... but that´s not how it looked in the books, there it was more described that a man shaped thing about the same height as a man, but wreathed in fire and shadow and that Terror and fear went before it.

[jos]

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all & then the darkness bind them"

[Baka-pjxv]

Thank you so much for summarising this.

[aubreyyoung]

After watching all of the lord of the rings movies it is now one of my favorites.

[Ahsanz]

This is great, just one correction. Elendil and Gil Galad are the ones who defeat Sauron at the Last Alliance. Sauron burns Gil Galad alive with the heat of his hand and Elendil is slain as well, but not before they first both take Sauron down and severely weaken him. Isildur then uses Narsil to just cut the ring off Sauron’s hand. He doesn’t actually defeat Sauron himself

[RJCE]

Amazon couldn't do this story with a billion dollars?

[poggywoggy]

Love the art only issue is celebrimbor is pronounced Kelebrimbor

[scottpeg]

It's so weird seeing LotR here in the same capacity as Mythology.

[mr.s]

he is known by many Halbrand in Rings of Farce
I think an important element skipped over was that Sauron was not 100% responsible for the fall of Numenor. Over the centuries, starting with the king who first sent his armies to fight Sauron, , the Numenoreans slowly grew jealous of the elves to the point of that they had ended their ancient alliance with the Elves. by the time Sauron had surrendered to them. What Sauron did was use their desire for immorality to convince them to go attack the land Valar.

[alexanderargandaru]

This vid pops out after I finishing Middle Earth Shadow Of War game. Man, the storyy really make me goosebump. I watched the movie also inclusing the Hobbit trilogy (I wanted read the novel but still no version for my language).

I think Sauron was one of the greatest enemy (in pop culture) and brilliant strategist. He managed to deceived many Man and waged war for thousand years.

From the game I learned Talion want to destroy Sauron for good, he didn't want Celebrimbor or other Man become Sauron itself, just because they want dominate each other.

Talion sacrifice so much and he willingly to become Nazgul to prevent other Ring bearer to dominate Sauron. He believes when the times comes, there's a real hero that really continue his mission to truly destroy Sauron for good. which in this case Bilbo Baggins. and from that he finally can go into the afterlife for good

[charliemcternan]

More fun and awesome adventures of lord of the rings love it

[patriciafrancis]

Sauron is so cool! I hope the writers don't ruin this awesome villain in The Rings of Power.

I hope the writers don't ruin this awesome villain in The Rings of Power.

[madisonseyfried]

This is how the Rings of Power tv show should go.

[lagunamusic]

This story is not entirely accurate.

First off the elven rings were made in secret by Celebrimbor and that’s why Sauron had no control over the three rings the elves had.

Second, Sauron couldn’t control the dwarves because they have a natural resistance to the rings, it only made them more greedy.

Also when Sauron went away for 1000 years he was hiding from Eru and the valar. After one thousand years he took over Morgoths place because he thought they would not look for him.

Little did he know they sent other maiar like Sauron in the form of the wizards that were sent to oppose him.