The Dark Lord Sauron, of course, plays a major role in the SecondAge of Middle-earth. He also survives into the Third Age, when The Lord of the Rings takes place. But where does he actually ...
Like Satan, who was once an angel known as Lucifer, Sauron was originally an angelic being himself called Mairon. As one of the Maiar (the race of immortal spirits from which Gandalf also derives), he ...