'The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power' Showrunner Explains How Show Will Change Sauron And Declares That He "Is The Hero Of...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showrunner JD Payne provided more details on what viewers can expect from the upcoming second season and revealed that the show will depict Sauron believing he "is the hero of his own story."
That can be said for many, many villains. Doesn't mean it's deep or significant.
I get so tired of these bozos.
Imagine if someone did a "Hitler is the hero of his own story." I'd say Satan, but they actually like Satan being the hero.
It's also not true of Sauron. Perhaps if they were telling the story of him as Marion in the First Age and before, when he was still counted among the Maia. That's when his chief motivation was order and planning, seeking for all things to have their place and role. This can be a noble quality when used in moderation for the right ends, but as he fell in with Morgoth, this motivation twisted to complete domination and subjugation of the entire world to his will. A tragic tale of what might have been good intentions being corrupted could be a story about him being the hero of his own story
But by the Second Age, after the War of Wrath and Eru casting Morgoth outside of the universe, Sauron was given a chance to repent and he denied it. There is no version of Sauron from that moment on that has even one atom of goodness left in him. He wasn't picturing himself as the misunderstood good guy who actually had a great plan for the betterment of all, and was just being stymied by outsiders who couldn't see his vision. He reveled in evil for evil's sake. He hated the Valar, God(Eru), and all of God's children. This is the guy who takes the highest peak in Numenor, a mountain hallowed for the worship of Eru by the Numenoreans, with the last progeny of one of the Two Trees, and turns it into a site for human sacrifices and burning children alive using the wood of that now torn down tree as kindling to worship Morgoth. Oh and he does this in the same time frame Rings of Power is taking place. Tell me again about him being a hero of his own story.
Then again, the people writing Rings of Power actually do see child sacrifice to spit in God's face to be heroic.
Funny you should say that, because Morgoth and Sauron are Satan. Not just Satan-esque characters. They're actually written to be Satan, though split into two beings. Morgoth the more prideful, rampaging, calamitous, pure destruction for the sake of destruction side of Satan, and Sauron for the more slimy, sneaking, honied lies and mistruths spoken in whispers to cause God's children to hate each other and forsake faith in God side of Satan. But they were written to not just be like Satan, but to actually be him, just in a fantasy story. Just as Eru is God. It's Tolkien writing God playing himself in a story.
So Sauron is Lord Business
Melkor wanted to be the hero of his own story as well
"And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."
The very first sick burn in history.
Paradise lost already did that. If you aren’t the hero of your own story, then you must hate yourself.
They kind of did that already in DC with Lucifer Morningstar but it was less he was a 'hero' more his role was a punisher for those that sinned which is a more interesting take that rather than being evil that wanted to destroy the world he was the jailer tasked with punishing the evil.
Villians can usually fall into two categories, those that believe they are righteous despite the actions they take thinking it's the only way to save everyone and those only there for personal gratification and enrichment. Just saying 'thinks of himself as a Hero' isn't deep and isn't new. It just shows how beginner level your writing is.
I don't know how common a belief it is exactly, but I suspect many antisemites would be right there with you. I've seen a lot of people who are uncompromisingly critical of jews and "the powers that be" in general, who also express that we're responsible for letting our societies reach their current state.
There may not be much we can do individually in the face of such a massive machine, but it's generally understood that we're all tacitly accepting an unacceptable state of affairs simply by choosing to remain safe and comfortable in our homes while that state of affairs persists.
I actually prefer that interpretation as it makes satanists look even dumber that they actually dammed themselves when if they truly wished to serve Satan, they'd be lawbringers and justicars lol.
Feds are the real Satanists, always egging people on to do things they shouldn't be doing.
these clowns made cruella deville the "hero of her own story"...
she literally hunts puppies for to turn them into coats.
BNHA just ended and Shigaraki Tomura (an actually complex villain unlike Sauron) said "villains need a hero of their own" in one of last chapters, and series is a mid shonen with kids as target audience
these people really think their audience are as stupid, or more, as they are (which is probably true honestly)
Mind you, they also showed that the person who most looked up to and idolized him was someone who knew him as a person, not as an idea. Also the fact that they showed society changing by having the same old lady who ignored said villain when he was a child in need and a huge thene of the series is incremental generational change rather than one-and-done pivotal everything-is-different-now moments (look at All Might publiclysefeating AFO, for instance)... you might be selling it a bit short.
true, Spinner had a great conclusion too, and i'm only underselling it because the final chapter felt like it lacked clarification, hence all the memes surrounding the ending
Isn't that the premise of The Greatest Story Never Told?