If there is any one thing I can't forgive #Tolkien for either not writing or not preserving, it is the mysterious "Sauron: Arising and Fall of Men" that is referenced in the essay "The Awakening of the Quendi" in #NatureOfMiddleEarth. I have *thoughts* on this. 
@MichaelFKane @7stars7siblings @srwestvik @Tolkien_erklart There was a long period before NoMe was published where portions of fandom—at least where and when I was involved—assumed the being described in the Anthrabeth must have been Sauron due to the timeline conflict...
To know that that is the direction Tolkien seems to have been going in his own mind is interesting. I don't know if he simply never wrote the piece he references here (with the being explicitly being Sauron) or if it was lost, but I dearly wish I could read it!
It's not exactly surprising that he went that way considering how Thu is described relative to Morgoth in early texts and the growth in the power and importance of Sauron to Morgoth's machinations in later texts. But actually *seeing* it is very cool!
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