Why was Sauron so lame?

Sauron was a maia

>Why did Sauron die when he lost his finger

Beings like Melkor or Sauron aren't gods and don't have unlimited power. All their plots cost them vital power. They kept spending and spending and got weaker and weaker until there was barely anything left. The ring could have been the only thing keeping Sauron material in the world.

does he appear in the battlefield?

>able to do this
>somehow still lose
did sauron have brain problems?

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He has no direct appearance whatsoever in the book.

Anatar was a cute trap

Sauron makes a physical appearance at the battle of the last alliance. However I think he is actually defeated in combat and then isildur takes the ring off his finger. It's not a lucky desperate swing like in the film

He was described as unable to take fair form after Numenor and did show up on the battlefield when the Last Alliance came knocking, so he was probably armored in some nasty shit. I picture it like pic related. Less is more. The Jackson armor is too busy and almost sci fi for me.

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He died fighting Elendil and Gil-Galad. Isildur cut his finger with the ring off after his body was defeated.

Wasn't he scared to come out? Like the humans outside were issuing direct challenges and it was only because he was so cornered and desperate that he met them in battle

He had a 1 vs. 2 duel with the Chaddest Elf and Chaddest Man in the Last Alliance. He beat them both but was vanquished himself, and then Islidur cut the ring from his finger and he was reduced to a impotent spirit. The thing about these dark lords that were once spirits is that they aren't impervious to all except for fellow spirits; Elves and Men are capable of duelling and wrecking them.

>there is no Eye on the tower
I feel bad. Like my faith died.

During the events on LotR Sauron was the equivalent Hector Salamanca in terms of powers

The Eye is his sigil in the book. It's basically synonmous with him. Sauron himself has something of a physical form considering he tortured Gollum in person and was described as having a blackened hand with only four digits.

And even then if you looked into the palantir, it took a lot out of you. For Aragorn, he found fighting at Helm's Deep easier than communicating with Sauron.

They were pretending they had the ring to stall and give Frodo time, so I guess he was scared

In the book he is a psychic entity that does have sight and influence that extends from his dominion so its not entirely a fabrication on the films part, more a simplification of something that can't be visually shown that easily

There's still an eye that kind of exerts pressure on Frodo and looks out, it's just not attached to a tower. It's more abstract

So he had a physical body and lived in the tower but there was no description of what he looked like? That's interesting.

And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dûr was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung. From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ring-wraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom.

>OH N-

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Yeah he's always a faraway unseen entity

kino writing and it's most kino

>and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.
this line is such kino, I always think of it

>From all his policies

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Jackson armor is cool, like an actual divine power created it to use against similarly powerful beings

you should give it to the movies how absolutely kino Barad-dûr and The Eye of Sauron looked

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For Sauron himself was filled with great fear at the wrath of the Valar, and the doom that Eru laid upon sea and land. It was greater far than aught he had looked for, hoping only for the death of the Númenóreans and the defeat of their proud king. And Sauron, sitting in his black seat in the midst of the Temple, had laughed when he heard the trumpets of Ar-Pharazôn sounding for battle; and again he had laughed when he heard the thunder of the storm; and a third time, even as he laughed at his own thought, thinking what he would do now in the world, being rid of the Edain for ever, he was taken in the midst of his mirth, and his seat and his temple fell into the abyss. But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dûr, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

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