3 Hours Of How Sauron Almost Destroyed Middle-earth To Fall Asleep To

This video traces how Sauron began as Mairon the Admirable, a Maia of Aulë, and became the dark lord who almost destroyed Middle-earth, told slowly as a three hour sleep story. The story follows Tolkien's own account of Sauron's fall, from his service in the house of Aulë the Smith through his corruption by Melkor, his rule over Tol-in-Gaurhoth, and his deception of the Elven-smiths of Eregion in the Second Age. It stays close to Tolkien's reasoning that Sauron's ruin came from a virtue, a love of order and planning, that turned inward until his own will became the only order he could accept. The narration covers the Quest for the Silmaril, the death of Finrod Felagund, the defeat by Lúthien and Huan, and the long construction of Barad-dûr behind the disguise of Annatar. It is paced for listening in the dark, with no sudden shifts in volume or tone. What's covered in this video: Sauron's origin as Mairon, a name meaning the Admirable, one of the Maiar who entered Arda at its making and served Aulë the Smith, surpassed among Aulë's people by none but the master himself. Tolkien's explanation, set out in a draft letter from 1956, that Sauron went the way of all tyrants by beginning well and considering the economic well-being of the inhabitants of Arda before his planning fixed in his own isolated mind. Why Sauron was drawn to Melkor, later named Morgoth, who offered the power to enforce his own vision of order on all things. His renaming as Gorthaur the Cruel, his rise to chief lieutenant of Morgoth, and his command of Angband through the Wars of Beleriand. The capture of Minas Tirith, the watchtower Finrod Felagund raised on Tol Sirion around the fifty-second year of the First Age, and its transformation into Tol-in-Gaurhoth, the Isle of Werewolves. The breeding of Draugluin, the first werewolf and sire of all the werewolves of Beleriand, made by setting evil spirits into giant wolves. The duel of songs of power between Sauron and Finrod during the Quest for the Silmaril, Finrod's defeat, and his death killing a werewolf with his bare hands to save Beren. Huan, the Hound of Valinor who once belonged to Celegorm, the prophecy that only the mightiest wolf could slay him, and Sauron's decision to take that exact shape. Lúthien's spell of sleep, Sauron's failed shifts from wolf to serpent to his own form in Huan's jaws, his surrender of the keys of the tower, and his flight as a vampire over Taur-nu-Fuin in the year 465 of the First Age. The founding of Barad-dûr on the plateau of Gorgoroth around the year 1000 of the Second Age, roughly six hundred years in the building, raised before the deception of the Elves ever began. Sauron's arrival in Eregion around the year 1200 as Annatar, Lord of Gifts, claiming to be an emissary of the Valar, and his teaching of ring-craft to the Gwaith-i-Mírdain led by Celebrimbor, grandson of Fëanor. Mentioned in this video: Sauron, Mairon, Gorthaur the Cruel, Annatar, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aulë, Melkor, Morgoth, Manwë, Eönwë, the Valar, the Maiar, Finrod Felagund, Beren, Lúthien, Huan, Celegorm, Fëanor, Celebrimbor, Draugluin, the Noldor, the Sindar, Middle-earth, Arda, Eä, Beleriand, Angband, Tol Sirion, Minas Tirith, Tol-in-Gaurhoth, Ard-galen, Taur-nu-Fuin, Sirion, Eregion, Gwaith-i-Mírdain, Mordor, Gorgoroth, Mount Doom, Barad-dûr, Valinor, the Silmarils, the Quest for the Silmaril, the Wars of Beleriand, the War of Wrath, the Rings of Power, the First Age, the Second Age, Lórien.