Sauron, on the other hand, simply begs to be thrashed.
The lieutenant of Morgoth, former commander of Angband, necromancer and lord of werewolves - bested by a girl and her dog. Pathetic.
Afterwards, he got lucky for a while with the Númenóreans, but his worst ever decision was the making of the Ring. "I want to rule the whole world and become unvincible, so I'll put a whole lot of my power into a detachable object that I'm bound to lose sooner or later for the first halfwit halfling who passes by to pick it up. And to be sure, I'll base the foundations of my impregnable fortress and everything else on this thing so that my whole kingdom crumbles to bits when something untoward happens to it." Pure stroke of genius.
