The Mouth of Sauron is a mysterious figure in The Lord of the Rings book and movies but J.R.R. Tolkien provided answers in ...

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Gothmog led the Orcs against Gondor's forces in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, but was Gothmog actually an Orc or ...

The Mouth of Sauron is a man who was once corrupted by the dark lord. He is in direct contact with Sauron in the tower of Barad Dur, and is responsible for relaying his master's plans to the lower ...

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 ...

That’s not the full extent of his arsenal, however. Throughout The Rings of Power Season 2, Sauron also unleashes intense, prolonged hallucinations on Celebrimbor. Unlike everyone else in ...

Frankly, that’s just iconic behavior. Which is why I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I’d be like in a horror movie ...

The duel between Galadriel and Sauron midway through The Rings of Power Season 2, Episode 8 is about more than just swordplay. There’s an intense psychological component to the fighting ...

Casual viewers or readers of The Lord of the Rings may have never fully grasped the villainy of Sauron. In Peter Jackson’s movies, for instance, the Dark Lord is a threat, and a scary one at ...

Over the past two episodes, Sauron has "helped" Celebrimbor focus on his task by trapping him in a magical illusion of peace. Outside the walls of his forge, the city of Eregion is under siege by ...

But, for many, the emotional crux of the hour is the moment when two of its biggest characters finally meet again: Sauron and Galadriel. The pair, who hadn’t shared the screen since the series ...