Re: What Does Sauron Look Like Without Armor
Helaine Thall
What do you suppose Sauron looks like in his MAYBE human form (besides his eye)? He is only shown in the prologue of the Fellowship of The Ring, and he is in armor then. My guess is he is an old man like Gandalf and Saruman, since like them, he is a Maia. But still, I could be wrong.
There's an entry on Sauron's appearance at with a lot of quotes from Tolkien's writing, seems like a well-researched site so I doubt they missed any detailed descriptions...from this, it seems Tolkien was never too specific in his description of what Sauron looked like, and said nothing about what he wore. But in support of his general appearance as a very tall humanlike being, there's this quote: "Sauron should be thought of as very terrible. The form that he took was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic."
One of the ways this is accomplished, especially for a character like Sauron with limited lines of dialogue, is with a truly unique costume. Peter Jackson and the creative team at Weta Studios spent long hours designing exactly what Sauron's would look like. Since J.R.R. Tolkien never fully explained what Sauron appeared like in his epic fantasy novels, it was up to them to bring him to life. Jackson's trilogy was praised for its painstaking attention to detail in regards to its costumes, and the Dark Lord's was no exception. Below you'll find 10 details about Sauron's costume you never noticed.
Sauron's armor is never described in Tolkien's books, but Peter Jackson decided to use elements of Morgoth's armor to explain to designers what he felt it should look like. Morgoth was a fallen member of the Valar who decided to conquer Middle Earth, and wooed Sauron to be his devoted servant with promises of order from chaos.
The design of the armor was intended to reflect Sauron as a character and be unique to him, and as singular in its forging as the One Ring. The entwining of the intaglio decoration was intended to contrast with the strong ugliness of all the sharp spikes, blades and sharp edges, mimicking the look of black thorns.
Its look was intended by the Weta Workshop designers to be disharmonious, because Sauron would not have wanted to wear anything that resembled the armor of Elves, Men, or any other race. He would have wanted to channel all the intimidating darkness and wickedness that he could to reflect his poisonous malice.
His helmet was meant to resemble a horse's skull, with great spikes atop its pate like a crown or the horns of Barad-dur. It was said that his helm and his armor were burned black from their prolonged time on his body, which burned from within with a violent rage that had long since consumed him.
For as large as Sauron's mace was (five feet in length), it was difficult to see just how much detail was put into it. It was made from the same black iron as his armor, and affixed with six sharply angled blades at the head. The same intaglio design that wound around his armor was also etched along the handle, made to look like an ivy-like weed found to grow at the bottom of the bridge at Minas Morgul.
Peter Jackson almost included scenes during the confrontation of Aragorn at the Black Gate, with Sauron appearing in that way. In the extended edition with deleted scenes, you can view what Sauron might have looked like when he had a corporeal form and wasn't a Lidless Eye or a wraith-like shadow.
He wore a similarly elaborate set of armor, carried both a mace and a dagger (which he used to stab Frodo), and to mimic the fell beast that he rode, his pauldrons and greaves fanned out to look like dragon wings in places. The jagged, spiked appearance of his crown and armor was meant to convey Sauron's will, even if Sauron himself wasn't present.
Following a depressing, grimy battle scene in which Morgoth's fellbeasts get the better of the great eagles, the camera sweeps over a legion of orc soldiers making way for a tall, armored figure. Nothing of his face or true form is shown. His armor is dark and pointy; his cloak sweeps the ground. In his left hand, he carries a slender staff-like weapon that appears more spear than wizard's (or sorcerer's) crystal-topped cane. While much remains to be revealed, it's clearly the Dark Lord Sauron.
When it comes to Sauron, The Rings of Power is leaning away from Peter Jackson's films and into J.R.R. Tolkien's writings. In the Second Age of Middle-earth, Sauron plays a much different role than he does in The Third Age covered by The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Silmarillion depicts Sauron as a shape-shifter, at times appearing as a vampire, a wolf, and a snake. More commonly, however, he appears to men and elves in the attractive human-like form of Annatar, and he's also known as The Lord of Gifts. Sauron's whole plan is to achieve Morgoth's goal of taking control of Middle-earth, but through politics, guile, and treachery instead of via open war.
This was in the last year of the Second Age. The story of The Lord of the Rings is set more than three thousand years later, in the closing years of the Third Age, but that book includes only the slightest hints of a description of Sauron. No doubt Tolkien kept Sauron in the shadows for good dramatic reasons, leaving it to the reader's imagination to create something darker and more fearsome than a mere description could convey. This literary device has left behind something of a puzzle: what actually did Sauron look like? For that matter, did he have any kind of physical body at all?
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