#zigur

[sauroff]

Zigûr coming out of Melkor's temple

#sauron #zigur #annatar #mairon #cw blood #silmarillion #the silmarillion #This is veeery similar to one of my first drawings of sauron #same color palette basically #my doodles

[helio-phobe]

The King of Numenor, his “Trophy Prisoner” and an eavesdropper.

#tar-miriel #ar-pharazon #pharazôn #Sauron #zigur #mairon #numenor #Second Age #The Silmarillion #tolkien #my stuff

[saintsilmarillion]

If I could only call you back through stone to flesh

Oh did you think I was done with Mairon and this statue? @fraeuleinfriedhof ‘s recent Fic made me want to give them some sad sweet alone time and @cilil is the reason they haunt me

#silm fanart #Angbang #numenor #mairon x melkor #zigur #temple of melkor #silm art #angbang art #my art #pygmalion #fanart #Tolkien fanart #Sauron

[sauronpilled]

He continued to call himself Mairon the Admirable, or Tar-mairon ("King Excellent"), until after Númenor's downfall, although he could not use that name in Númenor, as it was a Quenya name with royal implications. There he was called Zigûr, meaning "Wizard" in Adûnaic.

#the silmarillion #silmarillion #the silm #lord of the rings #lotr #mairon #sauron #annatar #tar mairon #zigur #you all better hype this up i stayed up till 1 am for this #tudor fashion icon mairon #your honor my client just speed up the process of numenor downfall #saint mairon ( that's how he view himself while the city is sinking ) #original work : my art

[cilil]

Petition to tag "Mairon | Sauron | Gorthaur | Ñorsus | Annatar | Artano | Aulendil | Tar-Mairon | Zigûr" on AO3

#ao3 #crack #shitpost #the tagpocalypse #mairon #sauron #gorthaur #annatar #artano #aulendil #tar-mairon #zigur

[artesdaterramediabykithkerulin]

Mairon

De todos esse foi o que mais amei fazer até aqui

#Mairon #Tar-Mairon #Zigur #Gorthaur #Tevildo #Annatar #tolkien #art by @kithkerulin #silmarillion #the silmarillion #tolkien fan art #sauron #fanart #jrrtolkien #lord of the rings #silmarillion fan art

[aotearoa20]

Zigûr and Tar Miriel

“To whom do you pray, Highness?” She blinked. A heavy question, riddled with loyalties she’d never confirmed one way or another. A small smile hooked around her face; the truth will not aid him either way. It is the smallest of victories but she clung to it nonetheless. “I haven’t prayed since I was a little girl.” “That’s wise,” She didn’t hear him approach, only shivered as he put his hands on her shoulder and spoke softly behind her ear. “Best to avoid such disappointments.”

#sauron #tar mairon #zigur #priest of morgoth #tar miriel #numenor #silmarillion #tolkien #moodboard #akallabeth

[hirazuki]

I’m finally getting ready to bite the bullet and start purchasing stuff for this guy, so I sketched out a couple of different options based on what I would buy/make  to see what combination of things I liked best -- and here are the final designs I settled on for Lieutenant of Angband, Annatar, and Zigur!

Some notes, for fun:

I adore all the armored First Age designs of him I’ve seen over the years, but I’ve somehow never been able to get behind the idea of a huge painted eye on his breastplate -- even though it looks extremely badass!! I just can’t picture him wearing his own insignia while serving Melkor (and not because Melkor would not tolerate it or anything; simply out of respect for him). Like, I can see it during the three ages while Melkor was imprisoned, especially if one headcanons that he initially would have been met with some resistance to taking up leadership in the interim and had to prove his worth; but not while Melkor was in Beleriand XD

I’m always torn between plate armor and scale mail for First Age, but I think I’ve finally decided to lean towards scale mail just because he had dragons available to him; I imagine he’d absolutely take advantage of the extremely useful and precious materials at his disposal ethically harvested, of course, they were just scales that shed naturally, they are his babies after all

I know the conventional interpretation of Annatar’s hair is a very pale, bright blond (which I’m guessing Shadow of Mordor has something to do with that), but I’ve always seen him as a warmer, deeper blond, kind of like honey. My version of Annatar has always been heavily influenced by Cedric from W.I.T.C.H.

Zigur I have no deep thoughts on; it’s just my byzantine/gothic heart going WILD XD

#annatar #zigur #tolkien #silmarillion #i'm super excited about this! #... my bank account is not XD #i think i'm going to go for FA first #then annatar #zigur i really want to shoot on location in one of my family's small churches back in greece so #it's going to be some time before i can go home to visit; prob a year or more #so he's not a priority #my art #mairon #sauron #silm #hira draws tolkien

[atane-is-here]

Pharazon and his shady court wizard

#ar pharazon #tar mairon #Two old hags sticking their heads together #zigur #the fall of numenor #akallabeth #silmarillion #tolkien #lotr #mairon #sauron #sauron in numenor #my art #fanart

[ra-horakhty-art]

Fire.

#silmarillion #sauron #annatar #mairon #gorthaur #zigur #the lord of the rings

[arofili]

@tolkienweek​ 2022 | favorite villain ● faceless | sauron in the second age

For Sauron took to himself the name of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, and they had at first much profit from his friendship...

—The Silmarillion, “Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age”

And Zigûr coming looked upon Anadûnê and the city of Arminalêth in the days of its glory, and he was indeed astounded; but his heart within was filled the more with envy and with hate.

—The History of Middle-earth: Volume IX: Sauron Defeated, “The Drowning of Anadûnê”

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dûr, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

—The Silmarillion, “Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor”

#tolkienweek #tolkienedit #oneringnet #silm #silmarillion #silmedit #lotr #lord of the rings #sauron #mairon #zigur #annatar #akallabeth #my edit #tefain nin

[morgulscribe]

His Name is Not REALLY Sauron, but no one really knows what to call him either

Tolkien's use of "Sauron" is infuriating. The character in question did not like that name because it meant "The Abhorred," or even "Foul-smelling and Vile." It was given to him by his enemies as an insulting play on his true name, which was Mairon, "The Admirable." However, Tolkien is an unreliable narrator at times and wrote from the perspective of a Noldorin/Numenorean/Gondorian scribe. Due to the implied bias in the text, the narrator uses every opportunity possible to get a pot shot in on Sauron Mairon.

This makes it very difficult to know when the character in question would refer to himself as Mairon, Sauron, or any one of his other many names and titles. Did he call himself Mairon in Angband? According to "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), the character used the name of Mairon until the fall of Numenor.

I guess the implication then would be that, since the character in question could no longer take a fair form, he decided to go full-on villain mode and accept the insulting title that his enemies gave him. After all, The Abhorred sounds more intimidating than The Admirable.

HOWEVER, Aragorn tells Legolas and Gimli that the "S" rune on the uruk helms belongs to Saruman, because the other "S" character does not permit his "right name" being written or spoken. (I guess this means that Aragorn considers "Sauron" to be the character's "right name" - not necessarily his "true name.")

To add to the confusion, there is also the existence of the Mouth of Sauron. In theory, this character might actually refer to himself as the Mouth of Mairon, but the Gondorian scribes, continuing their tradition of biased reporting, called him the Mouth of Sauron instead. Another possibility would be that the Mouth of Mairon refers to himself as the Mouth of Sauron when dealing with enemies, as the name would seem more intimidating.

This all makes for a very uncertain experience when writing about this character. Should he be called Mairon, when he isn't going by Annatar or Zigur? Or should the writer adapt the perspective of a Gondorian scribe, who would use the name Sauron at all times?

I don't know if there are any answers to these questions.

#sauron #mairon #annatar #zigur #aulendil #gorthaur #the necromancer #the nameless enemy #the great eye #base master of treachery #king of men and lord of middle-earth #elfhild's essays

[mnikhowozu]

some saurons :3

#misc: my art #sauron #gorthaur #annatar #zigur #mairon #lord of the rings #the silmarillion

[wavesofinkdrops]

doom in the hands of a martyr

Teen & Up Audiences

Fandom: The Silmarillion, Tolkien Legendarium Relationships: Tar-Míriel/Sauron Characters: Tar-Míriel/Ar-Zimraphel, Sauron/Mairon

“It is not immortality you gift,” she says gently, a lure, a bait he is enthralled with, “It is mortality you seek.” He is caught off-guard, the ground tilted beneath his feet, a minuscule shift in the careful balance of power he has played himself into within this blade’s-edge court, and it has fallen from where it’s intended to be.

#my writing #silmarillion #silm fic #silmfic #tolkien legendarium #tar miriel #ar zimraphel #sauron #mairon #zigur #akallabeth #fall of numenor #tar mairon #tar mairiel #tar miriel x sauron

[artesdaterramediabykithkerulin]

Tar-Mairon

Este senhor tem tantas formas, que acho que nunac vou acabar 😂 (Torço para que amanhã eu não o odeie e queira refazer ele inteiro como aconteceu com os anteriores...)

#Tar-Mairon #Zigur #Gorthaur #Tevildo #Annatar #tolkien #art by @kithkerulin #silmarillion #the silmarillion #tolkien fan art #sauron #lord of the rings #fanart #jrrtolkien #silmarillion fan art

[aotearoa20]

Zigur: (taunting Ar-pharazon from his cell)

Ar-Pharazon: Are you trying to make me plunge this sword into your heart!?!

Zigur: I mean…It would speed up the process

Ar-Pharazon: Don’t worry I’m gonna do it

Zigur: ( laughs) Okay…

Ar-Pharazon: I am! I am the greatest of the Kings of Men! I have defeated you and you armies of darkness and now i-

Zigur: -would you prefer I fell on the sword

Ar-Pharazon: No!

Ar-Pharazon: …

Zigur: ….

Ar-Pharazon: Ugh I can’t do this

Zigur: Uh… yeah? I could have told you that like an hour ago

Ar-Pharazon: You don’t understand if I don’t destroy you the elves will come for me!

Zigur: Will they?

Zigur: Or will they just sit under their trees and talk about doing it

#and that’s how Sauron got into Numenor #ar pharazon #zigur #sauron #tar mairon #akallabeth #incorrect silmarillion quotes #silmarillion #tolkien