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Re: Middle Earth Ramblings
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 8 May 2001 15:27:25 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bill Jackson writes:
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> > Take a look at that for Dwarves. Brian did an excellent job on the site: If
> > you haven't seen it, look at it! (And don't give him trouble about the
> > legobuilders part. :)
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> Bah, I could care less about the legobuilders thing, that's an awesome site.
> Those dwarves look great--I'll definitely be using his method.
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> > > BARAD-DUR construction
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> > Holy moly!!! Sounds neato! What about Sauron? What will he look like?
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> Well, I've never heard an actual description of Sauron other than in his
> giant bird form. Thinking about using the demonic-looking orange Alien head
> (this head is sweet for greater evils), a Darth Maul cloak or something
> similar, and various other evil black accessories. Where should I make his
> throne in Barad-Dur? Tolkien has never exactly taken us on a tour of the
> stronghold of evil. Somewhere near the top, probably. Also, I'm a bit
> uninformed about both Sauron and Morgoth. What are their relationships?
> Does Morgoth still exist and dwell in Barad-Dur? Someone gimme a little
> history on big Morg, please. Also, I'm going to construct orc spawning
> chambers and stuff underneath the castle in the BURP layers, kind of like a
> Pits of Angband sort of deal.
Sauron was Morgoth's lieutenant in the Bad Ol' Days. Morgoth was the
original Dark Lord, sort of a fallen-angel figure that had a great hand in
the making of Middle-earth. He was originally known as Melkor, and was on
the first rung of power below the One (Iluvator - Tolkien's supreme being).
Morgoth went down to final defeat - I think he was removed from the
boundries of the world forever. Sauron survived that debacle, and
transformed his physical appearance into the pleasing "Lord of Gifts", where
he continued to make trouble, both covert and overt. Hoist on his own
petard in the drowning of Numenor ("Bwahaha, an entire continent
submerged....oops, I'm on that continent"), he could never take a pleasing
shape again. Tolkien likes murky descriptions that leave things to your
imagination - Sauron was something of a black figure of a man at that point,
immensely hot like his Balrog-buddies (Balrogs, Istari - Gandalf, Radagast,
Saruman - and Sauron were all second-rung creations of Iluvator called Maiar).
Anyway, the One Ring was cut from Sauron's hand, and he lost his form (these
dang angels/devils just don't die normally). A few millenia later, he
reformed into a carefully vaguely described form. It didn't seem to be a
human form (a Giant Evil Eye would probably be the closest physical
depiction), and was apparently terrible to behold.
Bruce
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| (...) Bah, I could care less about the legobuilders thing, that's an awesome site. Those dwarves look great--I'll definitely be using his method. (...) Well, I've never heard an actual description of Sauron other than in his giant bird form. (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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