Building the Bad Guy

[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

And if they are scary, then how did he do it so effortlessly?

Twelve volumes of HoME say otherwise .

A disembodied spirit of malice who is represented though his servants rather than his own presence.

"Hate" to nitpick, but in LotR and the letters Sauron is described embodied at the time of LotR.

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

and surely having all this supposed 'political correctness' makes it even easier?! Just have your bad guy drive a bigger car, be a homophobe and be fond of pate de fois gras and you'll be bang on

Right on point; I fail to see why a bad guy needs to conform to the norm. After all, the very position of "bad guy" demonises him and probably also what he stands for. On the other hand, censoring oneself due to whatever legislation is stupid, because you would have to avoid all possible groups that would be offended - right?