Lord of the rings question. What race was sauron originally? Elves or men?

Answer 1

Sauron was a Maia.

The Maiar are a fictional race from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe, Middle-earth. They are lesser Ainur that entered Eä.

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The Maiar (singular: Maia) are lesser Ainur which descended to Arda to help the Valar, the greater Ainur, to shape the World. They are numerous, yet not many are named by Men or Elves.

Their chiefs are Eönwë, banner-bearer and herald of Manwë, and Ilmarë, the handmaid of Varda. There is no warrior in all of Arda who surpasses Eönwë in armed combat.

Each of the Maiar was associated with one or more particular Valar, and they were of similar stock, though less powerful. For example, Ossë and Uinen, as spirits of the sea, belonged to Ulmo, while Curumo, who came to be known in Middle-earth as Saruman, belonged to Aulë the Smith.

Others included Sauron (most powerful of Aulë's people), Aiwendil, who was known in Middle-earth as Radagast the Brown and belonged to Yavanna, and Olórin, later (and better) known as Gandalf, who belonged to Manwë and Varda (though his ways took him often to the house of Nienna whence he learned pity and patience, which perhaps aided him in his later struggles to unite the Free peoples of Middle-earth against the power of Sauron).

Alatar and Pallando, known as the Blue Wizards, traveled to the east and never returned to the west. Their fate is unknown. The Balrogs were, like Sauron, Maiar corrupted by Melkor. Their associated Vala is not known. Melian served both Vána and Estë. Gothmog was the Lord of the Balrogs. Arien was a Maia who bore the sun through the heavens, and Tilion, who loved her, was the bearer of the moon. It is likely that Thuringwethil, the vampire who served Sauron, was also a Maia.

Answer 2

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Let's see, Sauron is a demi god. You, you were killed by a 17 year old kid. Sauron bound his power into a ring that could damn near possess it's user and get it to do virtually anything it wanted them to do. You...were killed by a CHILD. Sauron lived for thousands of years....you survived for what, 60? No. There really is no contest. Sauron could smoke you in his sleep.

Answer 3

Name Sauron
Race Ainur
Culture Maiar of Aulë
Date of birth Predated creation of world
Date of death Immortal, but banished from the world T.A. March 25, 3019

Answer 4

What Is Sauron

Answer 5

I believe that Sauron was of men. I think all wizards were men. I think that's how it worked in the book.

Answer 6

I felt he was a man, just an evil one who knew wizardry

Answer 7

He's an Istari... like Saruman and Gandalf.

Answer 8

I thought that Wizards were a race of their own.

Answer 9

He was Human Knight.

Answer 10

both l think?