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On a serious note(HA, Like I could ever be serious!) I was just thinking about what Sauron could have looked like. Concerning him from the East. Now I'm not talking about Asia East. But it's possible he could have had the dark skin tones of the Middle East, for it seems to me, that in a lot of Fantasy Novels,(Mostly after Tolkien)Characters from the East took on the Middle East look.
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Well, I wouldn't say he was from the East. He only lived there. If anything, I would say he was from the West, since he was a Maia. Also, being a Maia and not someone born or created in Arda, his location probably would have had little to do with his physical appearance. This account of his appearance is given in the account of the destruction of Numenor in
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But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-Earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dûr, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.
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Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age gives almost the same account.