Lord Of The Rings: 10 Things Only TRUE Fans Understand
7. No One Knows What Sauron Looks Like
Despite being the central antagonist of a story spanning millennia, The Lord of the Rings novels are surprisingly vague about Sauron. The first movie introduces Sauron in the opening scene and depicts him as a colossal iron-clad warrior.
However, he never directly appears in the book series nor is he ever described. The appendices state that Sauron is filled with "an aura of incredible malevolence" and "dreadful presence" which still doesn't explain his shape, clothes, face, or height.
The film also emphasises how Sauron was physically destroyed thousands of years by a soldier called Isildur. In the book, there is no explanation how Isildur defeated the Dark Lord.
In the second and third film, Sauron is shown to have reformed his physical body into a giant lidless eye of fire which resides on top of the castle of Barad-dur.
This idea was concocted for the film. Sauron never does this in the original stories. Considering Sauron is one of the most infamous villains in all literature, it's bizarre that even the most devoted Tolkien fan can't tell you what he looks like.