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++Sauron
Someone commented that he was seeming rather worn out, and I thoroughly agree. What was that quote again...? "Winners never quit, and quitters never win, but only idiots never win and never quit," or something like that?
Now for some more Tolkien based reasoning... he doesn't really seem to deserve to be in power, except that he is powerful. He starts it off all wrong in the First Age, getting beat out of "his own" fortress by Luthien and Huan. Eventually Morgoth goes away, and Sauron who was only the second "best" baddie in the first place now promotes himself. He does his ring trick which only sort of works - how do you let the other most powerful rings escape your grasp anyway? Seriously, his armies throughout the Second and Third Age should have been plenty to wipe out the whole world, but he can't do it. He's always the one letting his troops down. Last Alliance, he lets himself get knocked out by Isildur waving around daddy's sword; WotR, he's not even smart enough to watch his own borders. He may be powerful, but he doesn't make that great a use of that power. Let's try accompanying it with some intelligence next time, shall we?
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