Why did Sauron Wear the Ring Over His Armour? #lotr #tolkien #sauron

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All we know about the dark Lord is that he looks like a dark Lord. Got it.

Brewsy
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I dont think we will ever see a movie triology like LOTR. Thank you Peter Jackson!

splitchy
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Tolkien's illustration of Sauron reaching across the sky as he is dispersed and blown away after the destruction of the ring is awesome.

unclejoe
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The armor was likely a manifestation of Sauron's chosen physical form, not literally removable plate mail made of sheet metal. So when he put the ring on his hand, of course it was over his "armor".

deusexaethera
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Gil-Galad and Elendil the Tall, the High Kings of Middle Earth, were both brilliant warriors. It must have been a brilliant and terrible sight to witness three of Middle Earth's greatest warriors battle on the slopes of mount doom.

kirby
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'Tolkien never describes any form of armour being worn by Sauron at all.'

Oh my God he was NAKED THE WHOLE TIME!

napoleoncomplex
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I always took it as him being a known shapeshifter, with the armor essentially being part of his body and the ring being something he was “wearing” on top of that

ryanbrown
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"Creative Liberties" are what people who are, you know, creative, take when making their art. Peter Jackson's art is film. He needed to create a physical form for Sauron because film is a visual artform. I think he did a magnificent job of it. Those LOTR films of his will live forever. People will be watching them a hundred years from now.

badbiker
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i always took it that because sauron is a shapeshifter his armor isnt clothes, it is literally just his steel plated skin

Grrimhildr
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The movies are masterpieces but they do Isildur some unintentional injustice. In book he NEVER succumbs to the ring, he instead spends his time being a fair ruler who practically gave power away to the people INSTEAD of being power hungry.


He comes to realize that he is not powerful enough to truly bend the ring to his will. That it will eventually overcome him. Isildur resolves to give the ring to Elrond but is killed on the way to Rivendel. It's a tragic story of a man that tries to right his wrong but ultimately fails.

In the books isildur literally repented and was about to bring the ring to Rivendell and apologize as he recognized it was beyond him even for a great numenorean connected to the faithful line of the mighty Elendil


I preface the prologue & war, other depictions I LOVE, captured the themes WELL, the vibe of the whole trilogy! The significance of the duel between Elendil & Sauron was Nerffed; (He wasn’t some random old bloke in armour getting smacked around) This man was MIGHTY and gleaming with power which you’ll find out in the great videos you’ll soon react to with joy!


* He and Gil-Galad; last true Elven King battled Sauron and slayed Sauron’s physical body and both died in the process. GilGalad was held high by the face for all free peoples to see as he then incinerated his bodily form to a crisp of ash! Isildur was part of the fight too but not as prominently and he just comes up to the body to cut the ring finger off and…. So one example is how easily Sauron is killed in the intro.


* • He's set up as this super powered badass, but all you have to do is cut off his finger? That's not how it went down in the book, where the greatest man-king and the greatest elven-king had to double-team Sauron to strike down his body, but were killed in the effort (Isildur then cuts the ring from the corpse).


Especially for elves the title of king has many meanings & by the Third Age there isn’t a population large enough to even attempt to such a thing as creating a unified kingdom, which would put a target on their backs, let alone many of them are beyond all of that anyway as it’s seen as doing more harm than anything good.

* They also seen what happened when the elves fell upon the swords of their own hubris and passion no matter if it was for the right reasons some of the time. That it always ended up in some sort of tragedy which sometimes even damaged the earth itself.

They had long known about what’s called the Long Defeat as ever since Morgoth’s marring of the land itself; pouring his remnants into it that caused the “magic” to slowly drain away from the land itself, which is sad because for ages several clans of elves were born there. even the greatest ancestors were “born” in middle earth awakening to the stars !


Many of who are left have accepted the next phase of their life which is to become councillors, healers and loremasters to those with the heart to listen and the desire to learn. But above all the guardians and custodians of several things and the world itself for as long as they can remain!❤ The elves “exist” as long as the world does. And Tolkien made it obvious in many ways that it’s our world as he restored Anglo Saxon culture/Mythologies and folklore, and their languages too alongside Irish, Welsh and Finnish mythologies too. Especially Norwegian(of which I am)


This is what Amazon (the show that shall not be named) didn’t deliver either [[AKA the actual story which inspired everything we love into existence with games and movies and books and so forth. Skyrim, elder scrolls, oblivion, Diablo, and world of Warcraft and D&D. And Game Of Thrones was hugely inspired by Tolkien… yet as the godfather of everything and the heart of what caused many peoples lives to be saved cannot get the justice it deserves for adaptations?


People literally conquered cancer because of the books and the trilogy, the books were read to their children for years. All 25 of them. The man was a hugely respected scholar and professor in the world. Translated ancient artifacts and hieroglyphs and petroglyphs and so forth for the government etc.

(JRR Tolkien even rejected being recruited into the CIA several times & he wrote everyone by letter and referenced the dudes who came to him as “little boys who knew not what they got themselves into” which showed his fearlessness.). The readers of the trilogy that came out are who he writes back to despite always replying to everyone back and forth.


Many people have shared the stories regarding these conversations which were past down throughout the family lines of the people who had a personal relationship with Tolkien which was hundreds of people when he was alive. Thousands. (Some are in video format too or happened to be shared later on in the video or comes up during a video about him and his work.


Especially nowadays when many of us came out of the woodwork to defend professor Tolkiens legacy from amazons money grubbing hands and so forth. Giving many channels a new lease on life where some make Tolkien related content now amongst other things they create content wise.

Makkaru
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The scene where he is in battle is terrifying. Elrond sees him and stands there with his mouth hanging open. When Elrond is scared you are done. Swinging his hammer and 10 men go flying 70 yards. Absolutely insane. If I saw that I’d slowly back away to the edge of the troops then RUN!

robpolaris
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The armor looks so incredible badass, it was a good decision to add it

katsudonisyummy
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Sauron is like a Skyrim giant, clad in Daedric armour, swinging the Mace of Molag Bol. What can men (and elves) do against such reckless hate?

BluffyMoo
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Well even if he wore it under the gauntlet, if Isildor cut the right finger off it would have had the same outcome.

AugmentImpulse
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That whole scene in the beginning of fellowship has felt more like an artistic representation of what happened rather than a historical account. Purely visual for the audience.

jackpackage
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Haven't seen anyone else say the obvious here. But Peter Jackson pretty much had to show the ring over the armour at the start.

The enemy of the films might be "Sauron" in name but it's actually the ring and pretty sure they say that in the behind the scenes stuff. Most of the film work and decisions were on how to get audiences accustomed to the ring and its powers. And so it had to be visually shown.

carter
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I feel like Peter Jackson put him in armor because he didn't feel like he could bring Tolkien's true vision of sauron to the screen.

ItsMichaelDavis
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That armor in the movie looked cool af

warlord
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The books pretty cool because the characters talk with reverence about Gil Galad and Elendil managing to kill Sauron, two mortals taking down a god is a really cool concept, especially at the time that the story was written.

ogion
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Well it was a beautiful creative liberty. Thank you Mr Jackson

lutskeWetterpes