Sauron

If you haven’t read The Hobbit for some years, you might struggle to remember the Necromancer’s role in the story. The stand-alone book is, after all, more focussed on the discovery of treasure and the battle against the dragon Smaug. The Necromancer does appear very briefly in The Hobbit book. He is given as the …

Sauron, as the titular Lord of the Rings, is Tolkien’s most famous Big-Bad. In the Legendarium’s main stories, Sauron is the Dark Lord conquering Middle Earth with his One Ring of power. However, long before the events of The Lord of the Rings, there was another Dark Lord – Morgoth. Originally Melkor, the most powerful …