Sauron's hair colour

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

I can only assume Agan's sudden interest in this topic is the result of discovering her true nature.

Ah, that must be what piqued Aganir's interest in looking up Sauron fan-art on the interwebs.

Come to think of it, I kind of imagined fair Sauron blonde, or really bright anyway. He was an angelic being, and therefore that is what he looked like to me: someone who was pretty and had light coming out of him, or something. Now that I say that aloud, I feel kind of silly.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Faramir Jones

If you want to imagine the fair-looking Sauron as having dark hair, that's fine by me.

Thanks. The thing is, I first read The Silmarillion in Finnish (actually I've never read it in English, apart from the early versions in HoME) and I think the translator had opted for beautiful rather than not dark.

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Ah, that must be what piqued Aganir's interest in looking up Sauron fan-art on the interwebs.

Hey hey that's what you get if you search #silmarillion on Tumblr. It's not like I exactly wanted to see erotic pictures of Sauron and Morgoth drawn by average artists.

[Morthoron]

Red is the color of Sauron's hair -
Of his coif he does not stint.
Such body and bounce for one so fair,
'Tis sure the bastard tints!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Hey hey that's what you get if you search #silmarillion on Tumblr. It's not like I exactly wanted to see erotic pictures of Sauron and Morgoth drawn by average artists.

Oh ho, so that's what one finds on Tumblr. You can keep your average porn to yourself, thank you. I will continue to imagine Sauron as an asexual being.

[Faramir Jones]

TheGreatElvenWarrior, you made an interesting assumption about Sauron being an 'asexual being'. Would you think the same thing applied to the Ringwraiths, after they became wraiths? Perhaps these were actual topics of debate among loremasters in Middle-earth.

On a more down to earth level, I've thought that if Gondorian soldiers were more like those of WWI and WWII, they would have asked the Nazgul, and in particular their leader, about when they were last sexually active. Also, the Ringwraiths would be asked about their Dark Lord, about whether he had certain organs, and if he ever used them, or if they were just for decoration.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Faramir Jones

TheGreatElvenWarrior, you made an interesting assumption about Sauron being an 'asexual being'. Would you think the same thing applied to the Ringwraiths, after they became wraiths?

Well, they wouldn't exactly be able to, would they?

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Well, they wouldn't exactly be able to, would they?

Well, there's this one really disturbing fan-fic I read where... no, I don't think I'd better go on...

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Oh ho, so that's what one finds on Tumblr. You can keep your average porn to yourself, thank you. I will continue to imagine Sauron as an asexual being.

We know Morgoth wasn't asexual though, the way he fantasizes about Lúthien is quite a give away. And why would the Valar go through the trouble of getting married if they were asexual? We also know of Maia crushes, such as Tilion who kept drooling after Arien even after she said no.

Addendum: Nerwen, link?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Oh ho, so that's what one finds on Tumblr. You can keep your average porn to yourself, thank you. I will continue to imagine Sauron as an asexual being.

If you venture onto Tumblr bear in mind that there's an internet saying: "What has been seen cannot be unseen."



I have to say though, I've just found one called The Adventures of Mini Thorin and had some proper chuckles