![]() ![]() ![]() Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He presented himself as a fair, altruistic Elf who wanted to collaborate with Celebrimbor to create gifts of great splendor.Bishōnen Line: Almost literally when he assumes his fair form as Annatar against Celebrimbor and Eltariel during the first and third phase of the final Boss Battle.Big Bad Ensemble: With Shelob, Zog the Eternal and the Bright Lord, Celebrimbor for Shadow of War. ![]() Big Bad: Of the Bright Lord DLC and all of Shadow of War.Berserk Button: He does not like people playing with the One Ring as the living Celebrimbor discovered the hard way after his own rebellion in the Second Age.Annatar, Lord of Gifts is easily the prettiest character in the series, but has the blackest, most cruel of hearts. Beauty Equals Goodness: Averted spectacularly.At the end of Shadow of War, Sauron succeeds in absorbing Celebrimbor into himself, but as a result ends up (seemingly involuntarily) turning into an immobile giant flaming eye for his trouble, losing many of his more useful powers and forced to rely on his orc armies to maintain his influence. Be Careful What You Wish For: Shadow of Mordor made it pretty clear that Sauron was hunting Celebrimbor in order to absorb his power and reassume physical form, something that could only be achieved otherwise by regaining the One Ring.And, as we know from the films, way, way in the future, just as the One Ring finally overtakes Frodo Baggins's mind right on the slopes of Mount Doom, almost guaranteeing that Sauron will retrieve the Ring with no trouble, the hobbit Gollum accidentally destroys it and cripples the Dark Lord's power forever. Sauron can't interfere in Talion's rebellion directly either, since his defeat and forcible assimilation of Celebrimbor ends up stripping him of most of his powers and trapping him in the form of the Lidless Eye. The undead Ranger Talion was corrupted by one of his Rings and becomes a Nazgûl, but that's only after resisting long enough to keep Sauron's armies off-balance until the One Ring could be found and a quest started to destroy it, thanks in no small part to the nifty new Ringwraith powers granted by said Ring. unfortunately for him, he's often loath to call them triumphs. The Bad Guy Wins: Sauron wins and triumphs over every opponent he meets face to face.The only thing he gets in exchange is an impressive, long-range True Sight, an immense downgrade from the threat he was. This means he can't physically manifest and also has most of his best powers negated. It effectively puts them in Mode Lock in the form of the Eye above Barad-dûr. By the end of the climactic fight of Shadow of War, Sauron absorbs Celebrimbor as he long intended to, but the Wraith manages to match his power and both end up fighting for control over their fusion. Assimilation Backfire: A crucial one too.That being said, the Assimilation Backfire listed below provides a handy explanation as to why he doesn't have those powers by the time the events of The Lord of the Rings takes place. In the games, he not only still has it into the Third Age, but Sauron is apparently able to project telepathic messages to unwilling recipients from hundreds of miles away, and possibly also teleport. In the events of the books, the top god Eru deliberately takes away his ability to assume an attractive form after the Downfall of Númenor caused by him. Adaptational Badass: This version of the Dark Lord is vastly more powerful than in the original books, and notably because he lacks a canon handicap.Defeated long ago by the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, he has returned to Mordor after a two-and-a-half thousand year absence. The second Dark Lord to terrorize Middle-earth. ![]()
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