Poor Sauron! The chap did the best he could, you know.

[Edena_of_Neith]

((humorous post))

I feel Sauron got a bum rap out of all of this.

A classic case of someone trying their very best, and not being able to succeed no matter
what.
Classic tragedy.

I shall explain, in detail and at length, why I believe Sauron is the one who deserves
sympathy and support, not his enemies.

- - -

Here I am, Sauron, sitting in my fortress, Barad-Dur.
The Other Part of Me, the One Ring, was stolen by a thief.
Not just any thief, but some ratlike version of a man, who then hid under a mountain.
Then, another rat comes and steals my Other Self from the first rat, and takes it back to
a whole land of rats.

When the rats realize that it is my Ring, they do not give it back, as they should have
done, but instead presume to hide it, to try to keep it from me by force, and to injure or
kill those I send to retrieve what is rightfully mine.
A clear case of robbery, obstruction of justice, not to mention attempted murder of my
servants.

Then the elves, who are leaving Middle Earth and thus have no right to interfere in it's
doings - that is to say, they have no right to interfere with my doings, for I am Middle
Earth's Rightful Lord - conspire to keep the Ring from me.
They work with this incompetent fool sent from Valinor named Gandalf - the Valar cannot
be bothered with Middle Earth in general, but they just can't resist sending meddlers to
cause trouble.
As if there wasn't trouble enough, the Valar have to cause more - they certainly are living
in peace and quiet, over in their land! Why not leave my land alone, then?

Now, I send my nine best servants to retrieve my Ring.
What happens?
They can't do their job. They are total bunglers.
First, they miss the Ring in the heart of the ratland, then again because of some
wandering elves, then AGAIN because some rat farmer helps the thief escape.
It takes these idiots several days to locate the thief's home across the river - and of
course, the thief has bolted by then.
They cannot bother to ransack a whole inn ... the Ring was THERE (my spies confirmed
it), and they somehow miss it.

What is this? With living spies, all of the Nine, and the power of fear to bring half the
populace of that town called Bree over to my side, they cannot catch 4 rats who are
making no attempt to be careful, not even trying to hide from me?
What's going on here??

Now, the Nine give me the excuse they couldn't track the rat thief through the
wilderness.
Are my best servants seriously trying to tell me they can't follow some rats and a single
human through a bunch of grass and weeds?
And if so, why couldn't they get someone who COULD track, from that idiot town? There
were trackers there. Round them up!

The Nine inform me that they drove that cowardly assassin, Gandalf, from Weathertop.
Great.
When the rats and human came up, why didn't they finish the job???
If the could defeat that wretched Maia, why couldn't they defeat 4 rats and a human?
No excuses about that Morgul Blade, either. No rat could have survived that - they must
have given my Ring to someone else. To tell me that the rat survived 18 days with a
Morgul Knife in him ... the Nine are good LIARS, if they are nothing else.

They cannot find the rat thief, and now they blame it on some hills.
Some hills!
It's not like my Commander wasn't the Witch-King, and didn't know those hills throughly,
down to every last gully and peak. He only had nearly a thousand years to scout them
out.

Now the Nine are telling me that this RAT could resist their combined wills, and run off on
some stupid elven horse, and they couldn't catch him?
And they ran right into an elvish trap??
And they allowed a single elf to drive them all into that trap??!
And they now tell me that because they lost their disguises, they could not - invisibly, in
their greater strength - have come against the rat, the human, and the stinking elf, and
not won?

Well, it's time for some torture.
Torture of the Nazgul, that is.
First, torture for incompetence in that rat-land of the Shire.
Then, torture for their idiocy in Bree.
Then, torture for their idiocy on Weathertop.
Some more torture for idiocy in failing to catch the thief in Rhudaur.
Yet more torture for falling into that elf-trap.
Yet MORE torture for letting a single elf scare them.
And yet MORE torture for failing to attack the rats and rebels in their invisible state.
And finally, further torture, just for good measure.

I, Sauron, now have to deal with these rebels holed up in that gully (Rivendell.)
I send out my Crebain.
I send instructions through them to the wolves to assemble and hunt anyone leaving
that gully.
I send instructures to the orcs to follow the wolves.

The birds (the only COMPETENT servants I have) tell me that coward Gandalf is trying to
sneak my Ring out of the gully, taking with him a rag-tag group of rats, humans, a dwarf,
and one of those dark elves.
Gandalf the Fool reveals himself to my scouts on Caradhras.

So why didn't my servants catch them and kill them, as I ordered?
Are the orcs of the Misty Mountains trying to tell me they could not spot travelers in the
western lowlands?
Are the orcs trying to tell me their scouting parties could not find these curs?
And if they could not find them, why didn't they send messages back and TELL me they
could not find them?

I know that one of my best wolf leaders was killed, when his scouting group found the
knaves, and tested their strength, as I requested.
So, why didn't the REST of my wolves close in for the kill??
Doesn't ANYTHING up there bother to follow my instructions?
Or are they trying to say they could not track and run down these knaves, who were on
foot?

(steamed look)

What do they think I am, an idiot like them?
My Nine, my orcs, my wolves, cannot find these rats and knaves, cannot track them,
cannot defeat them - and they don't have a single Noldor among them who could actually
put up a good fight - and cannot even FIND them, even with the help of my birds???

Where is the help I looked for from my new slave, Saruman?
Dunland is under his control, and the knaves were almost to the border of that land.
Why weren't those humans dispatched northward?
Where were the orcs of Isengard?
Where were Saruman's spies?

For that matter, where was Saruman?
He has a palantir, just like myself. I ordered him to seek them out.
After Gandalf gave himself away on Caradhras, Saruman should have had a lock on him,
from then on.

Are they all trying to tell me that my Nine, Saruman my best slave, the hosts of Isengard,
the humans of Dunland, the orcs of the Misty Mountains, the wolves, my birds, Saruman's
spies, my spies ... cannot catch a rat, his rat companions, two humans, a dwarf, and a
wretched elf, and that fool Gandalf, while they wander willy-nilly through empty Eriador?!

I won't have it! Do you all hear? This is an outrage, and I won't have it.

Well, I know the Ring is with them - any orc could see that!
They have a new Ringlord among them; I am betting that fool Gandalf thinks himself my
equal. He will learn better soon enough.
So come, Gandalf, come! Come along, for I am waiting.

You may have disappeared from my sight, briefly, but I will find you.
You cannot hide for long from me!

 

[myrdden]

Can you blame the poor guy for being ineffective? He was, after all, a disembodied spirit. Without the use of opposable thumbs he wasn't going to get much further than the average prairie dog.

And a giant flaming lidless eye in the desolate, dusty lands of Mordor? My eyes woulf be on fire too. Poor guy probably didn't have access to Vizine.

Myrdden

 

[Dagger75]

Wasn't it 4 rats a human AND A MULE that they coudn't track.

Also, Next time hire some people we can swim.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I don't think you read the same LotR that I did. The Ring wasn't stolen from Sauron by Gollum. The Ring was taken as spoils of war by Isildur after Sauron attempted an invasion.

 

[Darkness]

Heh. I wonder if a ring of invisibility (even an intelligent or cursed one, in D&D terms) could be as imporant in a D&D world...?

Probably not - a shame, kinda...

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Pity poor Sauron!

((Adds some more time to the timeline))

((Assumes the role of Sauron again))

- - -

(Sauron is there by the window, but he has a half-circle of his top commanders around
him, including some of the Nazgul. Sauron is facing them, not looking out the window.)

Gentleman, there is something seriously wrong with the picture you are trying to portray
to me.
I must assume that I have been given a very distorted and incomplete picture of the
events that have occurred, and therefore I have summoned you all to correct the
misimpressions that I am under.

For example, I sent a very large army into Rohan to destroy it, and then to take Isengard
and bring the traitor Saruman to me.
Now, I am informed that my army has been decimated and driven back across Anduin by
trees.

(smiles faintly)

Was it oak trees that felled my orcs, trolls, and other servants? Or was it maple trees,
gentlemen?
Ash trees? Linden? Mallorn? Fir trees? Or maybe little plum trees?
Gentlemen, please answer me - if you must insist it was a horde of trees that destroyed
one of my largest forces, surely you must also know what kind of trees they were?

(smiles more broadly)

Oh yes, my High Commander is dead.
You know, he survived MY defeat in Eriador, 6000 years ago, don't you?
He survived the assault of the Last Alliance, which took down this very bastion you stand
in now.
He crushed the realms of Arthedain and Cardolan, bringing terror to all the rebels in the
north.
He ventured forth and took Minas Ithil, riding forth to victory against the full might of
Gondor.
You do appreciate all of this, gentlemen, correct?

So now, you tell me that a milkmaid and a rat killed him.
A ... milkmaid ... and a rat?
Gentleman, I will give you all the benefit of the doubt on this matter.
I will assume that there was a mistake in communications, that somehow the rebel Maia
(Gandalf) misled you, or that perhaps in the heat of battle you saw what you didn't see.
However, I do expect the truth, and I expect it very shortly.

If I do not receive the truth, I will find some new commanders.

(stops smiling)

I have a use for old commanders too, when they are of no further use.
What that use is, you will all find out very shortly, if I do not find out how my High
Commander was killed.

Gentlemen ...

Why was it that, when rebels came to Morgul Vale, you decided to take two days to
inform me of this?
Minas Morgul was still manned - I did not order everyone to leave. Your Watchers alerted
you immediately, and the means to send messages was at hand.
Perhaps you may believe that the war can be won without my attention and orders.
Perhaps you believe that your way is better than my way, hmmm? Perhaps there is no
need to tell Sauron what is GOING ON, because you can take care of all of it yourselves,
right?

(steamed look)

So, the rebels gain a two day head start on you up the Stairs.
Now, Shagrat ... you inform me that you heard a battle, from the Tower of Cirth Ungol.
You inform me that you thought Shelob was having fun, and claim my orders were to
leave her alone during said sun.

When Shelob is at play, my dear Shagrat, does she SHRIEK IN AGONY, and in torment the
likes of which only I can usually inflict, and go running off into her lair?
When Shelob is at play, is the Enemy at hand, yelling, screaming, waving ELVEN swords
around, and otherwise giving the impression an entire host is come up from the valley?
Or did you have better things to do, Captain of the Tower, than pay attention to
guarding the pass, like I asked?
Was it so difficult an order, to watch the pass - or, at the very least, have watchers
observe Shelob's 'fun', as you call it?

Now Shagrat, I am a reasonable Maia.
I expect reasonable, concise reports from my servants.
So, what do I get?
This ...

(very steamed)

A great elf warrior is on the loose, and he has wounded Shelob, destroyed the Watchers
at the gates of the Tower, come running up the stairs, and confronted you - and you,
supposedly, retreated because you carried some important captured items of the rebels,
and thus you thought it the better wisdom not to fight the elf.
But wait! It wasn't a great elf warrior. It was a little dwarf man. And this little dwarf man,
with an axe, destroyed my Watchers, stormed my Tower, and you ran from him.
No ... apparently it was one of the rats. One of the RATS from the rat-land stormed my
Tower, destroyed my Watchers, and ran you off!

Of course, my dear Shagrat, the prisoner - the REAL rat - got away.
But that's not your fault. Oh no. The elf - or is it a dwarf, or a man, or a rat, or maybe one
of those trees from Rohan came up the Stairs? - stormed your Tower and drove you off -
and you come here with the lame excuse that this worthless suit of armor, and an elven
cloak, are MORE IMPORTANT that a prisoner ... a prisoner that I gave SPECIFIC ORDERS,
under penalty of death to the ENTIRE Tower Guard, to keep safe??!
Is this what you are saying?

Oh, Gorbag made you do it.
Do you realize that not even my NAZGUL has been able to ascertain why you and Gorbag
fought?
Do you realize that I STILL do not know why you and Gorbag decided to turn my Tower
into a charnal house, kill or drive off all of my servants, and leave the pass open to the
enemy?
You claim he started it.
Some of his uruk-hai, captured by my forces, claim you started it.

You say he just simply attacked you ... no reason given, no reason at all ... a pack of
rebel uruk-hai just DECIDED to attack my Tower and raze the place, because they felt
like it!
They say you started it, when your forces attacked them. Is this true, Shagrat? If it is
true, I certainly wish to know WHY you decided to attack and massacre my slaves from
Minas Morgul?

(VERY steamed)

The rat; the prisoner, got away.
The Elf warrior, or is it the dwarf, or the tree, is loose - in MY land.
My Tower of Cirith Ungol looks like the REBELS had their way with it.
And not one of you - not ONE - can tell me what happened!

You cannot tell me when the spies came up the Stairs.
You cannot tell me why you did not send me word at once.
You cannot tell me WHY it took a full day for Minas Morgul to respond after you ... bothere
...d to send word to me.
You cannot TELL ME WHY you did nothing as the spies made an uproar in the pass that
could be heard in Nurnen.
You cannot tell me ... you cannot tell me why you decided to carry on a Civil War and
wreck my Tower!
And you cannot tell me WHY it is you could not stand up to the elf warrior, or the tree, or
WHATEVER IT WAS, who ... well - apparently he just WALTZED right into my Tower, as he
pleased, jaunted up the stairway, and took off with the prisoner, arm in arm!!

You cannot even catch the slink, when I specifically asked you too, and he passed right
by your walls.
Oh, and you don't know where he is, or what he is doing ... except that he is freely
wandering about my Realm - of course.

The enemy SPIES are wandering around my Realm freely.
I send trackers to find them. What happens? I end up with dead orcs, with ORC arrows
in them ... now I know orcs fight orcs, but when I, SAURON, give a command, I expect a
little more discipline and obedience from them, and isn't that reasonable?

I now have an entire HOST at the Tower, and they are searching ALL the ways the spies
could have taken, and now you tell me that my entire ARMY cannot find the spies.
That's just wonderful, commanders.
Outstanding work. I must think of a just reward for such competent and outstanding
behavior - and trust me, dear servants, I will find a very, very, appropriate reward for all
of you.

(rises in wrath)

My Morgul Host is destroyed.
Sixty thousand orcs and their Haradrim allies, destroyed. Destroyed!
And by what?
A few thousand pathetic greybeard Dunedain who couldn't hold a sword by the right end
if my orcs showed them how?
A few thousand horseboys - I had MANY THOUSANDS of the best horsemen in Middle
Earth at that battle - but you say a few thousand horseboys from Rohan defeated them?
Oh, and that's another point - I sent an army to intercept the horseboys, and every road
from Rohan to the Dunedan City was blocked - so how did they get there?
Did they fly like eagles?
Or did they climb over the mountains, perhaps?
Maybe they went through tunnels under the ground?
Or just MAYBE, some certain Commanders and their scouts were asleep at their posts ...
or like you, Shagrat, and Gorbag, they were busy having THEIR civil war, and THAT was
more important than my orders.
EVERYTHING appears to be more important than MY orders!

Apparently, I am not important.
Only what the orcs feel is important, is important.
Such as having civil wars, sleeping at their posts, failing to do their jobs, and making up
excuses for it.

Oh, and now I am told an Army of the Undead destroyed my Corsair Fleet - actually, they
did BETTER than that ... they STOLE it, and manned it, and came to the aid of the
Dunadan city.

(VERY, VERY steamed)

I ... SAURON ... am Master of the Undead of Middle Earth!
They bow to ME, and no other.
Those who live in the Shadow have ALWAYS been under my Dominion, always WILL be
under my Dominion, and there has never, EVER been an exception.
Not one exception - for I am Sauron! I AM the Shadow!

Yet you DARE to tell me the great Fleet of the Corsairs was defeated by undead?
By undead? UNDEAD? UNDEAD?!!!

My servants are not competent soldiers, it would seem.
They are even LESS competent liars.

Trees.
Milkmaids.
Rats.
Valar-serving undead.

Let me tell YOU what happened, fools!
This MAN, Aragorn, has the One Ring.
This upstart used it to defeat your forces.
This upstart dares to think he can win against me, Sauron, and even now he marches
out to do just that!
He marches out, with his army (snorts) army ... a ragtag throng of fools, brigands,
horseboys, deluded Dunedain, and that meddler Gandalf ... to take on the full might of
MY army at the Morannon.

(smiles again momentarily, then utter rage)

My dear Commanders, I will grant you this one grace.
Call it the grace of Sauron, his mercy and charity to you.

I WANT THIS ARAGORN ALIVE, DO YOU HEAR? BROUGHT TO ME. HIS FORCE ANNIHILATED,
SWEPT OFF THE FACE OF ARDA LIKE IT HAD NEVER EXISTED!!

When I have my Ring back, there will be an END to incompetence.
And my arrogant foe is bringing it right to me.
He thinks himself strong.
He thinks himself great.
He will rue the day he chose to challenge me, Sauron, Rightful Lord of Arda.

(gentle smile)

And my dear servants, there will be no more talk of trees, or milkmaids, or rats, or
undead serving the rebels, or ANY of the OTHER pathetic excuses I am receiving.
Do you hear?!
And there will be no more delays of DAYS in sending me CRUCIAL information, and no
more delays in hunting down rebels entering MY Realm, and no more destruction of MY
citadels by my own people, who then subsequently blame the other for the mess, while
INVALUABLE PRISONERS are spirited away merrily in the caressing arms of Elf-warriors
who decide they can simply WALK into my strongholds ... and they CAN, because there is
nobody to oppose them, because my servants - for some insane reason - decided
KILLING EACH OTHER was more important than the war, my laws, my DIRECT ORDERS, or
ME!

Do you hear?
NO MORE OF IT.
THERE WILL BE NO MORE OF IT.

I have a mountain of fire in which I created the One Ring.
Out of that mountain came the Great Ring.
INTO that mountain will go ALL who give absurd and impossible excuses, fail when failure
is literally IMPOSSIBLE, and think their personal whims are my important than my orders!

(Note - Mount Doom does not erupt at the command of Sauron, as generally is thought
by the Wise. Instead, it erupts every time Sauron throws another temper fit, which is
quite often - but can you blame the chap?)

 

[Prince Atom]

(sigh) It's so hard being an evil overlord, isn't it? When you're surrounded by incompetents?


Good work, Edena. Sauron's rants bring to mind Queen Bavmorda's complaints that her daughter can't find "one little child."

The Nazgul couldn't go after the Elf without their disguise? Good will always win because Evil is lazy. But as for some of the other failings.... If the enemy outmaneuvers you, is that really your fault? Assuming you had competent intelligence, and good soldiers, and all these other things (which Sauron doesn't because Evil is lazy), then it's really just luck on the battlefield.


I'm a little surprised that Sauron discounted the reports. You'd think he'd know of the Ents and the Dead and what-all if he wants to live up to his image.

Myrdden, a good point. I can just see Ben Stein and the Eye shilling eye drops...

TWK

 

[The Forsaken One]

LMAO, nuff said =]

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

((More of the timeline has passed. Frodo has just claimed the Ring as his own in the Sammath Naur))

((Once more assumes the role of Sauron))

- - -

(Sauron looks out from his window, sad, reflective, musing, and amazed)

I am Sauron the Great.
I am the most knowledgeable upon Middle Earth, and I am the wisest of the Wise.
I am among the eldest, and certainly in power I am the greatest.

(wry look)

Or, that is, I was.
For one has come forth, and he is greater than I.
His strength overmatches mine, and his stature is larger.
His sword arm cuts deeper, his body is more resilient and enduring.
His will is mightier than the will of Sauron, Maia of Middle Earth, and his will is exceeded
only by his cleverness and dauntless resolution.

I called him a rat. I will honor this greatest of all foes. I will call him what the rebels call
him.
A hobbit.

Frodo the hobbit. The greatest of the Great, wisest of the Wise, mightiest being of Middle
Earth.

(feels very sorry for himself)

I am terrified of him.
He is coming for me. Morgoth help me ... Frodo is coming for me, and I cannot stand
against him.

I was deceived.
Horribly, audaciously, deceived.

But I see All now!
I perceive the Truth!
All the plans and plots of my enemies are laid bare, and nothing more is hidden!

It was Frodo who took the Ring from that rat-creature Gollum.
Frodo, equal to me - how could it be otherwise - mastered the One Ring, mastered my
Other Self, and for 60 years he held it, learning all it's secrets, gaining all of my
immeasurable power to add to his own tremendous might.

It was NOT an accident that I knew nothing of the Shire - Frodo Baggins used his power
and the Ring to keep it hidden.
I foolishly sent the Nine into the Shire, my trusted and faithful servants - who Frodo could
easily have killed.

My beloved Nazgul, sent against an opponent they could not possibly have hoped to
defeat.
They showed the greatest of courage and fortitude, determination and cleverness, and I
rewarded them with torture - all because of my own blindness, blaming them for not
being able to accomplish the impossible, to take the Ring from the greatest being in
Middle Earth.

Frodo eluded my Nine, and obviously the whole game of cat and mouse in the Shire was
his way of laughing at me.
Laughing at me! Me, Sauron. An outrage. And unfair.
Nobody has the right to laugh at me, Sauron, Rightful Lord of Middle Earth. Nobody
should laugh at their Rightful Lord. It's just not right.

It is clearly obvious he used the Ring to ensnare Gandalf the fool, Gandalf the assassin,
and make him into a tool.
Did Frodo not send Gandalf to Isengard? Did he not allow that traitor to capture Gandalf,
intentionally, to deceive me? I thought Gandalf trapped, and so my Nine walked into the
true trap, the trap set by Frodo.
And Frodo brought Gandalf out of Isengard, tore him from Saruman's grasp, sent him to
run circles around my Nine, while Frodo laughed and laughed and laughed.

No Mortal Being could have survived the Morgul Blade.
No Mortal Being!

And did not Frodo drive my High Commander, the greatest of all my servants, with four of
his right hand men, in rout from Weathertop?
Did he not do this, AFTER he sustained the Morgul Wound?
My Nine claim it was that man. No MAN could overcome the Witch-King ... even the rebels
acknowledge that no man can overcome him!
It was that hobbit. Frodo.
In one hand he wielded the One Ring, vast and indomitable in it's power - for did I not
create it? And in the other hand he wielded a terrible blue flame of the West, the very
essense of the Valar, in his long, terrible elven sword.

The wonder is not that the Nine were driven from Weathertop.
The WONDER is that ANY of them escaped.
And that is, obviously, because Frodo allowed them to escape.
So he could laugh at me some more. The Morgoth-rotten, evil hobbit, he laughed at me.
Laughed at his Rightful Lord ... and he proved himself the stronger.

(knowing look)

Everything that has happened, I see the hand of Frodo Baggins in.
It was Frodo who commanded Gandalf to face the balrog, and then struck the balrog
down while it was engaged with that idiot Maia.
It was Frodo who drove the orcs off - that orc ambush in Moria went perfectly ... but how
could orcs hope to stand up to Frodo the Invincible?

Frodo must have whelmed my Great Enemy, Galadriel, and made her his slave.
Thus, he had all of her people at his disposal ... and he took their magic for himself, and
thus gained even greater power to use against me.

As for that pathetic rebel Elrond, I have no doubt that Frodo disposed of him, and ruled
Rivendell himself, and brought his slave Gandalf back as a proxy to give orders to all the
others through.

It was Frodo who conjured up the trees and whelmed Isengard.
It was Frodo who broke Saruman, and took the Palantir from him.
It was Frodo who sent the trees to destroy Saruman's armies.
With his own might, the power of the One Ring, and the stolen magic of the elves, I can
understand now - as I did not understand before - how Frodo could have accomplished
such miraculous defeats.

Ah, it reminds me of my own work, when I had the Ring, back in the Second Age!
Truly, here in this hobbit, Frodo, is one worthy of me, and a true adversary ... as Gil
Galad, Elendil, and that accursed coward Isildur were not!

(feels VERY sorry for himself again)

It was He, who guided the Rohirrim to the Dunedan City.
It was He, who wielded the One Ring to raise the Army of the Undead, and He stood at
the forefront of the battle that saw my Morgul Host wiped out.

And it was HE, who killed my High Commander.

So when my servants said a rat killed my High Commander, they really WERE telling the
truth - except that THIS rat was Frodo the Almighty, and who could have known?
Of course, there was the lie about that milkmaid, but that is lava under the Tower, now.

He walked right into Morgul Vale.
He deceived the Watchers.
He somehow convinced everyone in Minas Morgul that no enemy was present - why ELSE
would they not have sent me any message?
He wounded Shelob - not even FINROD could have done that, and I crushed that rebel
elf with ease!
NOBODY had ever wounded Shelob, not Gil Galad, not Elendil, not even the greatest of
them all - and the greatest fool of them all - Ar Pharazon, to whom my own ARMIES
surrendered, ever wounded Shelob.

Only a truly powerful being could have done that.
Only someone with powers equal to mine.

I should not have tortured and killed Shagrat.
This Maia-level being stormed his tower with ease, and slew every orc in it - Shagrat was
INCREDIBLY lucky to escape, and apparently the only one to do so.
A testament to Shagrat's courage and cleverness. A truly worthy servant - and I tortured
and killed him.

Now, my enemy has overcome all resistance, beaten down all my guardians, and he has
gone to the very forging place of the One Ring.
The Sammath Naur! The place where I, Sauron, forged the One Ring, my Other Self, that
I might dominate the world!

He has gone THERE. THERE! To mock me. To deliver his final insult to me. To tell me how
worthless, weak, and ineffectual I am.
He has gone to the place where I, SAURON, forged the One Ring, to claim it for HIMSELF,
and thus to utterly mock me for all time.
Even now he stands there, and faces me triumphantly, in the heart of my own Realm!

(look of stark terror)

He is coming for me!
I see it in his eyes.
I hear it in his voice.
I feel it in the stance of his body.

He will come, and no servant or Nazgul can hope to withstand him.
He will come, and I will fall before him.


I will be crushed.
He will come, and he will throw down the Gates of Barad-Dur, and the stairs will shake at
his ascent, and he will throw me down!
He will put that little foot on my neck, and with his big eyes he will gloat over me, and his
high little voice will be raised in laughter.

It shall not be!
It cannot be!
It's not fair.
It's not right.
I tried too hard. I gathered all my servants. I built armies. I built whole nations.
I spent 3 millennia preparing for this day, and this hobbit, Frodo, Greatest of the Maia of
Middle Earth, has overthrown ALL my works, all my servants, and my home will fall, and
my realm to naught!

He will not kill me.
He is too cruel, this hobbit.
He is too vicious.
He is relentless and remorseless, and has he not shown it, time and again?

He will chain me, just like the Valar chained Melkor!
I will be dragged to the Shire, so that all the rats can look at me and laugh!
I will be caged, and imprisoned with his indomitable power, forever shut away in the
Void, forever in torment!

It cannot happen to me! It can't!



You win, Ringlord Frodo, Hobbit, Maia, Ruler of Arda!
I concede the world to you!
The fate of Arda is in your hands now!

However, MY fate is not in your hands, Frodo the Great!
My fate, at least, I - SAURON - shall dictate!

You may gloat over all of Arda, but you shall not gloat over me!
You may imprison and enslave Gandalf and Saruman the fools, and all others, but you
shall not enslave ME!
You have won, but I, Sauron, shall escape in the end.
I shall escape, and you will never have me!

Do you hear?
DO YOU HEAR?!
DO ... YOU ... HEAR?!

I ... AM ... SAURON, AND I ... CHOOSE ... THIS ... FATE!!!

(And Sauron, offs himself.)

(The Wise believe that the fall of Sauron, and the destruction of his realm, was due to
Gollum biting off Frodo's finger, thus taking the Ring, and falling into the Fire.
However, those in the know will tell you that Sauron offed himself just before this
happened. As a result of Sauron offing himself, all the other events observed - the rout
of his armies, the crumbling of his land, the fall of Barad-Dur, were the result of this act of
despair and final defiance.)

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

A question

Well now, don't you agree that Sauron is the one who deserves sympathy, not that arrogant Frodo person?