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Old 01-03-2009, 04:51 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Lalwendė View Post
Tu doesn't really strike me as having been evil though, and as Groin says, Tolkien struck out the possibility of this in one of his drafts - so could he really have been the genesis for Sauron???
Gives a whole new meaning to what Elrond says about Sauron:

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Originally Posted by The Council of Elrond
For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.
Of course, I doubt Elrond meant it meta-textually.
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