Timeline for Does Sauron ever show sadness or despair over deaths or suffering in Tolkien's writings?
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| Oct 7 at 18:53 | comment | added | Ian Thompson | @PeterM --- The very worst thing in the Highlander sequels is not nearly as bad as the show that shall not be named. It is an abomination. | |
| Oct 6 at 18:52 | comment | added | Peter M | "As much as it pains me to deal with any mention of the show that shall not be named". What's this got to do with the Highlander sequels? | |
| Oct 6 at 12:19 | comment | added | Valorum | "Sauron really isn't a very nice chap." [citation needed] | |
| Oct 6 at 12:03 | comment | added | Dale M | In general, Tolkien was very black and white in his thinking about good and evil. He was very Catholic about it and saw these as real forces in the world (both the real one and his imagined ones). He did not have a lot of time for morally ambiguous characters. | |
| Oct 6 at 10:17 | comment | added | Ian Thompson | @galacticninja --- please see the second edit. I think the answer to your question is "no". Sauron really isn't very nice. | |
| Oct 6 at 10:16 | history | edited | Ian Thompson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5 at 19:25 | comment | added | chepner | Yeah, "I just dodged getting evicted from Eä, better cool it", not "oh all those poor Elves and Men I killed to further my own ambition". | |
| Oct 5 at 19:09 | comment | added | toolforger | That passage assumes that he repented more on a "okay I followed a bad strategy" basis, not on a "what have I done" basis. That's a pretty unemotional form of repentance. | |
| Oct 5 at 10:27 | comment | added | m4r35n357 | It sounds to me that the programme makers wanted to make Sauron "relateable" (at any cost to Tolkien's work) to people who don't read books. | |
| Oct 5 at 9:35 | comment | added | galacticninja | @IanThompson I wonder, though—beyond this example, does Sauron ever display actual emotions of sadness or despair in other passages? This show of repentance seems more driven by fear of punishment than sadness or despair. | |
| Oct 5 at 9:01 | comment | added | Ian Thompson | @chepner --- I've edited and added a bit more to the quote. It doesn't change the general point: Sauron definitely expressed repentance, but he may well have been lying when he did so. | |
| Oct 5 at 9:00 | history | edited | Ian Thompson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4 at 19:13 | comment | added | chepner | The quote continues "if only out of fear", so there's no indication that he necessarily felt remorse, just recognition of his own peril. | |
| Oct 4 at 18:50 | history | answered | Ian Thompson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |