Who is saurons master

They came swiftly to his aid and drove Ungoliant away. He then began to rebuild Angband, and to gather his servants there. The name Melkor was never spoken again by his enemies.

As Morgoth finished rebuilding Angband, the slag and debris created by his vast tunnelings was plied into three huge volcanoes, collectively known as Thangorodrim. He hastened then to rebuild his forces, breeding innumerable Orcs and other fell beasts.

The Silmarils were mounted into the Iron Crown. This action triggered the tragic War of the Jewels , in which the Elves would be utterly defeated in the end. Soon, he and his vanguard drew far ahead of the main host, and the Orcs, seeing this, turned and gave battle at the gates of Angband. Unfortunately for the Elves, Morgoth's force was the greater of the two, and was accompanied by Balrogs. The Elven company was quickly slain with the exception of Maedhros, who was captured and chained by his right hand to one of Thangorodrim's many cliffs.

However, the Elves knew that Morgoth would not honor his word, and sent no reply. To his dismay, however, the Valar revealed the creation of the Sun and the Moon , which confounded Morgoth and his servants for a time.

To counter these new lights, Morgoth sent up nigh-impenetrable clouds of smoke from the Iron Mountains to darken Hithlum. During the time of confusion and inaction among Morgoth's forces by these new lights, Fingon traveled to Angband, aided by the very darkness Morgoth had set upon Hithlum, and rescued Maedhros. After this failure, Morgoth took to capturing what Elves he could, breaking them with the power of his will and chaining their lives to his.

The burning of Ard-galen at the beginning of the Dagor Bragollach, by Filat. One hundred years later, Morgoth sent an army into the north to approach Hithlum from the side, but an army under the command of Fingon destroyed them yet again in the Battle of the Firth of Drengist.

Another century passed, and the issuing of the first dragon, Glaurung , demonstrated the results of Morgoth's long labor. Glaurung's sudden appearance scattered the Elves in the immediate vicinity of Angband, but a company of archers under Fingon's command engaged him before he could do much more than frighten the Elves. As Glaurung was barely half-grown, his hide was not yet invulnerable to the Elven arrows and he fled the field.

Morgoth was displeased with Glaurung for revealing himself before his creator had planned, but ultimately Glaurung's youthful foray was of little consequence. Some time later, when men first arrived in Beleriand, it was revealed that Morgoth had left Angband and walked among the fathers of Men.

Hoping to corrupt them to his service, he spread his lies among them, and found them to be considerably easier to sway than the Elves had been. However, the strengthening of the Elven kingdoms worried Morgoth, and he returned to Angband before his labors were complete. Nevertheless, most Men believed or half-believed his lies and either departed from the North or joined with Morgoth's forces.

However, a small group of men that became known as the Edain resisted him. Morgoth duels Fingolfin by Ted Nasmith. About years after Fingolfin came to Middle-earth, Morgoth deemed that the time was ripe to destroy the Elves and their allies.

One cold winter night, when the Elven watch was least vigilant, Morgoth sent forth terrible rivers of fire and lava from Thangorodrim and poisonous fumes from the Iron Mountains. In the wake of these fires there came Glaurung, now fully grown, the Balrogs, and armies of Orcs and other monsters in numbers such as the Elves had never conceived of. Thus began the Dagor Bragollach. The Siege of Angband was swiftly broken and the forces of the Elves were scattered.

So swift and overwhelming was Morgoth's assault that the various Elven kingdoms were unable to marshal their forces in any sort of unified front, and as such Morgoth was able to engage the Elven forces in a piecemeal fashion, greatly blunting the effectiveness of any resistance. Fingolfin and Fingon only just barely managed to defend Hithlum from Morgoth's onslaught, as the mountains surrounding it provided an effective barrier against Morgoth's fires.

The Elves were completely driven from the forests of Dorthonion , and many of the Sindar forsook the war altogether and went to Doriath. When news came to Fingolfin of the totality of the disasters that had befallen the Elven forces, a great despair came upon him. When he arrived, he smote upon the doors of Morgoth's fortress, challenging the Dark Lord to come forth to single combat. Though Morgoth did not wish to, Fingolfin's challenge was heard by all in Angband, and was given in such an insulting manner that to ignore it would have been to lose face before his captains.

Morgoth issued forth in black armor from Angband to confront Fingolfin. Wielding the terrible hammer Grond , Morgoth repeatedly attempted to smite the Elven king, but succeeded only in carving many fiery pits in the ground from his missed strikes.

Fingolfin long managed to avoid Morgoth's blows, and wounded the Dark Lord seven times. But at last, Fingolfin grew weary, and Morgoth thrice drove him to his knees. Fingolfin arose each time to continue the fight, but eventually he fell backwards into one of the many pits formed by Morgoth's missed attacks.

Morgoth then set his foot upon Fingolfin's neck and killed him, but not before Fingolfin, with his last stroke, hewed Morgoth's foot with his sword. Then Morgoth broke the Elf's body and prepared to feed it to his wolves. But Thorondor , the King of the Eagles , swooped down upon Morgoth, marring his face with his talons, and rescued the body of the elf-king. Fingolfin's last stroke gave Morgoth a permanent limp, and the pain of his seven wounds could not be healed, nor were the scars ever erased.

However, despite his great victory, Morgoth had made a critical mistake. So great had been his malice and his desire to destroy the Elves that he had struck before his plans were fully realized, and in his hatred and contempt he had underestimated the resolve and valor of his foes.

Now Morgoth found that the Elves and Edain, recovering from the initial shock of his onslaught, had begun to make small gains against his outlying forces. He therefore checked his advance, and withdrew the main host of Orcs to Angband. For though he knew that his victory had been relatively decisive, his own losses had been as numerous as the losses that had been accrued by the Elves.

Towards the end of the Second Age, Sauron was once again powerful enough to raise again large armies to attempt to rule Middle-earth. As his power and influence reached its peak, he raised a great Temple in which he performed human sacrifices to Morgoth. The world was bent , so that thereafter, only Elven-Ships could sail into the Utter West. Sauron's body was destroyed, but his spirit was not diminished, and he fled back to Mordor bearing the Ring, where he slowly rebuilt a new body and his strength.

From this point on, he lost the ability to assume a fair shape, and ruled now through terror and force. After learning that Elendil , whom he had especially hated, had survived and was ordering a realm on his borders, Sauron, after a while, made war on them. He struck too soon, however, and had not restored most of his strength, whereas the Elven-king, Gil-galad had increased his power on Middle-earth in his absence.

Finally, Sauron himself came forth and dueled with both Elendil and Gil-galad, slaying them both single-handedly; however, he himself was overthrown in the process. Then Isildur , son of Elendil, took up his father's broken sword, Narsil , and used it to cut the One Ring from Sauron's finger.

While Sauron's physical body was destroyed, his spirit endured and fled. But his campaign to defeat the free peoples had seemingly failed, with his greatest weapon having been taken from him. But while Isildur had taken the Ring, he could not bring himself to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged, but kept it for himself.

He was eventually betrayed by it a few years later, and slain by Orcs at the Gladden Fields. The Ring fell into the Gladden river, and was lost for centuries. Despite his defeat, Sauron was not vanquished permanently. Though greatly weakened, and in non-corporeal form, he still existed, due to pouring most of his native power, strength, and will into the One Ring.

Thus, as long as it existed, he could never be truly defeated, and during the first millenium of the Third Age , he lay in hiding, slowly recovering his strength until he was once again able to take physical form. There, he was disguised as a dark sorcerer known as "the Necromancer", and the Elves did not realize at first that he was actually Sauron returned.

Around this time, the Valar sent the five Wizards , or Istari , including Gandalf the Grey, who later became Gandalf the White, to oppose Sauron and rally the free peoples of Middle-earth against him.

Without the Ring in his possession and facing the combined power of the three Elven rings and the skill of Saruman , Sauron could draw on only the smallest fraction of his strength, so that his enemies were able to drive him from Dol Guldur with relative ease. However, the Dark Lord, having had ample time to prepare, abandoned Dol Guldur willingly, and returned secretly to Mordor , where he openly declared himself in TA , and began preparations for his final war to dominate Middle-earth.

Sauron bred immense armies of Orcs and allied with and enslaved Men from the east and south. He adopted the symbol of a lidless eye , and as he exerted his will over Middle-earth, the Eye of Sauron became a symbol of power and fear.

After Gollum was captured, Sauron had him tortured and learned that he once had a magic ring, and, from him, he heard the words Shire and Baggins. Meanwhile, Sauron lured Saruman the White, one of the Istari, into his service, and used him to try to destroy Rohan , one of the major obstacles to Sauron's conquest of Gondor and the remaining Elves. Saruman failed however, and Sauron lost one of his most powerful vassals as well as Saruman's large Uruk-hai army.

Fearing that his enemies would use the Ring against him, Sauron sped up his plans and attacked the city of Minas Tirith in Gondor sooner than he had planned, seeking to raze the city and crush the last human resistance to his rule before his enemies could fortify it, and to prevent the Men of the West uniting under one king. Despite still possessing more than enough military strength to destroy Minas Tirith and easily conquer Middle-earth once Gondor fell, doubt began to grow in Sauron.

As such, he watched and waited, hoping for a period of strife between Aragorn and other potential Ringlords in which he could move out and take the Ring for himself. Despite their successful repulse of Sauron's armies at Minas Tirith, Gandalf and Aragorn knew that the bulk of Sauron's forces remained in Mordor, readying themselves for another, deadlier strike against the city.

In light of the situation, Aragorn called for a council consisting of the major commanders of all the forces present in Minas Tirith, and appointed Gandalf to be their commander until the crisis had passed. Gandalf made it clear to all those present that, despite their great victory, they ultimately could not hope to defeat Sauron's armies by force. Therefore, they had two options available. They could station their remaining force, considerably greater than it had been before the battle due to the reinforcements from Rohan and southern Gondor, at Minas Tirith and hope to endure Sauron's next attack.

Or, they could take a force to the Black Gate and attempt to challenge Sauron directly. This force, as Gandalf suggested, would only need to be great enough to offer battle, and the rest of their forces could remain behind to garrison Minas Tirith.

This option, though suicidal for those involved, would serve to distract Sauron from gazing into his own land, through which the Ring Bearer would be traveling. Furthermore, Gandalf theorized that, once Sauron learned that a force too small to pose any real threat to him was on its way to the Black Gate to directly assault Mordor, he would likely believe that the leader of the attacking force would have the One Ring in their possession.

Sauron would assume that the Ring itself would influence its wielder, who, in his pride and over-confidence in his newfound power, might be foolish enough to challenge Sauron's might with a force too small to assault Mordor in earnest.

This action left the Plains of Gorgoroth largely unguarded, allowing Frodo and Sam to reach Mount Doom with far less difficulty than otherwise. However, once Frodo reached the Cracks of Doom , he finally succumbed to the power of the Ring, and put it on.

Immediately, Sauron became aware of the halfling, and turning his gaze towards the mountain. He frantically sent the Ringwraiths to retrieve the Ring, but was too late, as Gollum, after taking the Ring from Frodo, slipped and fell to his death into the Cracks of Doom. The Ring was unmade. The cone of Mount Doom burst apart in a cataclysmic eruption that consumed the eight remaining Nazgul.

With his source of power gone, Sauron was utterly defeated and his armies were destroyed or scattered, bereft of the driving will behind their conquest. With the Ring's destruction, Sauron was permanently robbed of his physical form, reducing him to a malevolent spirit that hovered above Mordor as a "huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, With the destruction of the Ring, the vast majority of Sauron's being and his power was forever lost.

With that, Sauron's power was forever crippled, and the threat of his dominion was forever removed. For he will lose the best part of the strength that was native to him in his beginning, and all that was made or begun with that power will crumble, and he will be maimed for ever, becoming a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows, but cannot again grow or take shape.

And so a great evil of this world will be removed. Sauron is the Quenya term for "the Abhorred". Thu is reintroduced as an alternate name for Sauron in Beren and Luthien Tevildo , before that, was the name of the forerunner character to Sauron, a "Prince of Cats" who is a villain told of in the stories of The Book of Lost Tales.

Despite being the title character of The Lord of the Rings , Sauron is notable for never directly appearing during the events of the trilogy. Nowhere is any detailed description given of what he looks like, other than in vague terms. In the time of The Silmarillion , however, Sauron was a shape changer, taking in one instance the forms of a serpent, a vampire, and a great wolf.

DJClayworth 9, 3 3 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges. I think the question of whether one is asking about temporal power i. Unquestionably Morgoth took part in making Arda in a fashion that Sauron and, indeed most of the Ainur did not. On the other hand, Sauron had a great deal of 'political' currency across many nations in Middle Earth after Morgoth had been exiled to the void.

The text under discussion is quoted in this other answer. Basically while Morgoth originally had considerably more power, by the end of the FA he had spent it in dominating the land and its inhabitants, diminishing his "personal" power. Sauron in the SA hadn't gotten around to that yet. At least Ungolianth is a counterexample.

Also, though Melkor certainly had his role in the bad deads that were commited by elves, dwarves and men, I'm not sure it's right to say he caused this evil. I assumed that to mean, when they were most powerful respectively.

Even if Sauron obtained some additional power through the One Ring, it would not have elevated him to the level of a Vala, let alone the according to Tolkien most powerful one of them all although strictly speaking Morgoth doesn't count as one of the Valar, but he's in the same 'class' of beings. They were just to different. Even with the ring Sauron only surpassed a greatly weakened version of his master, but never his master at full strength.

Kaiser Kaiser 6 6 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. I think especially after creating Ancalagon the Black Morgoth was a bit short of breath Add a comment. Nick Nick 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. The Fallen Ron Meyers Ron Meyers 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Maiar are Ainur too; I suspect you probably mean "a Vala". Yes, indeed I did. Sorry for any misunderstanding.

No "possibly" about it; Melkor is stated many times to be the strongest of the Ainur, and it required the combined strength of the Valar to defeat Melkor in the first War. Melkor wins. Obsidia k 18 18 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Sam Spade Sam Spade 11 1 1 bronze badge. Spencer 7, 1 1 gold badge 28 28 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges. Thomas Haeyen Thomas Haeyen 4 4 bronze badges.

Can you supply any quotes that would support the argument that Melkor is so diminished that he couldn't stand up to Sauron? Editing assuming "thraits" is a typo for "traits" — Spencer. The essential story line is as follows: Melkor plants seeds of corruption in the first elves, then with Ungoliant spider of pure evil kills Finwe father of Feanor, creator of Simarils, which are jewels of pure light steals the Simarils and kills the Trees of Light, then flees to Angband, his fortress on earth.

Bob Bob 53 1 1 bronze badge. Holy wall of text batman! Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. While Morgoth was defeated in the First Age, Sauron eventually returned and sought to conquer Middle-earth on his own in the Second Age.

At one point, Sauron even managed to corrupt some of his enemies by convincing them to worship Morgoth, promising that his former master could save them from their own mortality. The Inverse Analysis — If accurate, it would make sense for Sauron to want to bring his former master back. Taking over Middle-earth himself would theoretically be the best way to make that happen.