I read the books and enjoyed them thoroughly.
Then I read the Silmarillion and learned that Sauron was a god yet got his butt kicked more than anyone in Middle-Earth and was humiliated multiple times. Now I have problems taking LOTR seriously compared to the Silmarillion.  The Ring seemed more deadly in their hands than Sauron's.
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"And forth went Morgoth, and he was halted by the elves. Then went Sauron, who was stopped by a dog and then aged men. Finally, there came the Witch-King, who destroyed Arnor, but nobody seems to remember that."
-A History of Villains
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