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Old 10-08-2003, 06:07 PM   #32
Secret Fire
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The Eye

All of the Ainur had the ability to change their form, but none held so many different shapes as Sauron. During the First Age, his accustomed form seems to have been that of a dark sorceror, commanding a host of evil things, and especially werewolves and their kind. He shifted form many times in his existence, though, especially during his duel with Huan; among the shapes he wore were:• Wolf-Sauron. This was the monstrous wolf-shape he chose when he went forth from his fortress on Tol-in-Gaurhoth to battle with Huan.
• During the battle, he changed his form to that of a serpent in his struggles to escape.
• Finally, after Huan released him, he became a great vampire, and fled into the east, 'dripping blood from his throat upon the trees'3.
these are, of course, not in the third age, but as he had simply lost the ability to appear fair, these abilities would remain. At the time of the war of the ring, Sauron was able to take two forms: the form of a great black man and that of a huge flaming eye.
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