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On the 12th Day of Sauron... a list of the things that I hope The Rings of Power gives to me, most of which have to do with Sauron, Galadriel, metaphysics, and moral complexity. #12DaysOfSauron. 1 day until the premiere of @LOTRonPrime 🧵1/24 #TheRingsOfPower #Sauron
You've probably noticed I like Sauron. Not that I'd want to have tea with him or anything—that sounds like a bad idea—but I mean I enjoy him as a character, which is something a lot of people find odd, because they see him as one-dimensional or without need for complexity... 2/24
or because they don't understand why anyone would find a villain—any villain—interesting. Certainly no one is obliged to, but if modern fandom is any indication, it's not really such an unheard of thing. Villains *can* be very interesting, especially (I think) their Falls. 3/24
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On the 11th Day of Sauron, linguistics gave to me: Sauron's actual, real—no joke—original name and the fact that it means things like "admirable, excellent, splendid, and... precious". #12DaysOfSauron. 2 days until the premiere of @LOTRonPrime 🧵1/13 #TheRingsOfPower #Sauron
In a bundle of linguistic notes dated to between 1955-1960, containing work on a list of meanings of names and words in LotR, and published in the linguistic journal Parma Eldalamberon in 2007, we learn that Sauron's original name was "Mairon" meaning "The Admirable." 2/13
This comes from the primitive Quenya root MAY- meaning ‘excellent/admirable.’ Related roots include (A)MAY- (‘suitable, useful, proper, serviceable, right’); it’s inverse, PEN- (‘lack’); and MA3- (‘serve, be of use‘ but also ‘handle, manage, control, wield’ and ‘hand’). 3/13
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