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There are some who would say Sauron is the lesser of the two, for he was beaten by a girl and a dog, and actually gave her the word that bound the stones of his tower together so that she could set her boyfriend free.
In addition, his ultimate defeat was brought about by a halfling, the weakest of the Free Peoples.
During the War of the Ring, he made hasty strokes that went awry, and mostly sat upon his keister for the whole of the Third Age.
During this time his minion, the Witch-King, brought about the general decline of the Northern Kingdom and the fall of the Southern line of kings.
Against this I say that the Witch-King was beaten by a girl and a halfling, and that they had not the spiritual power of Luthien, the elf/Maia hybrid in history, nor that of Huan, the greatest of hounds, who came from Valinor itself.
Moreover, Sauron's ultimate defeat was not in fact brought about by a halfling, for Frodo was overcome in the end by the Ring his creation, and it was only grace that allowed even for the chance fall of Gollum.
During the War of the Ring Sauron did indeed make hasty strokes that went awry, he was also weakened due to the fact that most of his strength had gone into his Ring. This Ring, as mentioned before, brought one of the noblest of the most stubborn, least power-hungry people, who was fully aware of what the Ring was and what power it had, to crave that very evil he sought to destroy, so that he fell in the end and though grace saved him, yet he could not enjoy the peace he had won.
Finally, Arnor and Gondor were able to rise again through the person of the King Returned, whereas Sauron destroyed Numenor, which never rose again. And not only did he bring about Numenor's physical ruin, but also its spiritual ruin, and he was able to do so simply through guile.
Therefore,
++Sauron
is the more badbottomed of the two.
Any guy who can, reduced to spirit form, pick up and carry his Ring back from under the ocean to Middle-earth is inherently awesome.
And he was a werewolf for a while. Don't forget that.
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