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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
You mean a bit like Alaistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson?
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Something like that. But maybe the Mouth of Sauron enjoyed this backstage communications and chief whip kind of role in Barad-dur, sucking up to Sauron and gaining more power and wisdom from his great master as a consequence. Even Sauron needed some company before his throne hall, rather than sitting in the darkness alone for decades. But when all was said and done, the Witch King would be the big commander, the vice-president, of Mordor. The Mouth of Sauron was just the equivalent of a very senior political spokesman and personal friend of Barrack Obama in the White House, but not the vice-president.
Not forgetting that, after the Witch King fell, that was the opportune time to become the undisputed number two to Sauron, if the other eight Nazgul weren't up to the task. So I guess the Mouth of Sauron could have boasted of his eventual newly found status after decades of being in the shadow of the Witch King. Interesting that, in
The Black Gate Opens chapter, had the Witch King still been alive, it is
he who may have spoken with Gandalf and Aragorn. That would have been interesting.