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Call me odd, and you may well laugh at me but here it goes. I know that every tale has its "bad character" but isn't Sauron a tragic character. He was possibly the mightiest of the Maiar and probably (if he hadn’t been seduced by Melkor) would have been loved and admired by Middle Earth in much the same way Gandalf was. To have basically his whole being to be consumed by power, wanting nothing but to dominate middle earth, maybe even Númemor itself, (always preferring to work behind the scenes and indeed when the dark lord does come face to face in battle he is always defeated) then to have that power, his driving force, taken from him during the Great Battle. Taken is the wrong word, he lost it in the worst sense of the word, because he literally couldn't find it no matter how much he called for the ring or how much the ring called and yearned for him. It didn’t matter how large his armies were or how powerful his hold on people was nor how fierce his reputation was, he couldn’t get back the thing he craved most. He spent thousands of years searching for the ring that would give him what he craved, only to have it destroyed almost within arms reach.
Just a thought however there are plenty of tradgic characters in Tolkiens works, some that I havn't even heard of yet I'm sad to say but I thought I'd try and think of something original.
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