Sauron the Deceiver has taken on many forms throughout the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Rings of Power, making him ...

Like Satan, who was once an angel known as Lucifer, Sauron was originally an angelic being himself called Mairon. As one of the Maiar (the race of immortal spirits from which Gandalf also derives), he ...

Sauron began his days as Mairon (“the admirable”), a powerful Maia—spirits who came to Arda to help the Valar shape the world. (Other Maia include Gandalf and Saruman.) He was a pure and ...

In The Lord of the Rings, before Sauron was an extremely feared and powerful enemy of Middle Earth, he was an immensely ...

Sauron, originally named Mairon, was one of the angelic beings known as the Maiar who was made by The Creator before joining in the evil Morgoth against him. Prior to his fall into evil ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

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In Tolkien’s lore, one of Sauron’s fearsome powers was his ability to shape-shift. Being a shape-shifter helped Sauron deceive and fight his many foes and, in fact, allowed him to create The ...

Sauron is one of the strongest examples. Many simply picture the Great Eye or Eye of Sauron, but that iconic symbol is more complicated in the source material. One of the things that helped Lord ...

Will Galadriel and Sauron reunite in The Rings of Power season two? The answer is yes: Sauron and Galadriel will have a reunion in The Rings of Power‘s next season. And not only will they ...

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...