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The Lord Of The Rings is some of the best fantasy work ever written, and its villain Sauron is absolutely terrifying, especially when you learn what his true form is capable of.
If you’ve been watching Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power you’ll know even more about the tyrant, at the cost of having to watch Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power…
Harshness aside in Season 2 we see Sauron “reform” as it were after being defeated, but fans were shocked to see him reform in a monstrous way.
Resurrections aren’t uncommon in The Lord Of The Rings, we see Gandalf come back in the first trilogy, but Sauron clearly operates on a different level.
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Fortunately fans have explained this in a Reddit thread, saying “The Istari were specifically given the bodies of men to limit their ambitions. Sauron is not limited in that way.
They went on to explain “In the books whenever spirits like Sauron (or greater ones like Morgoth) are killed, their spirit spreads like a shadow across and into the land. They are able to eventually reform, but are always weaker than they were before because some of their spirit is spread too thin for them to recover."
The commenter went on to explain that’s why Sauron never actually appears in Lord Of The Rings, he just felt like an overwhelming presence. He’s had to reform so many times that there’s not enough of him left to actually form a body again, pretty cool.
While I loved seeing Sauron’s physical form in the flashback to when he lost the One Ring, I think he’s far more imposing as an entity, one that could be lurking anywhere.
With new Lord Of The Rings films on the way from Warner Bros you never know, maybe we’ll see him return one day.