Truely. Those movies are so exceptional that it's easy to forget how brave some of the choices they made were, because doing the books 1:1 wouldn't work. Maybe Tolkien wouldn't enjoy it, but a lot of Tolkien fans thought it was worth while even at the time.
Lotr were my childhood man epic movies. Though i would like to see a new movie or even trilogy about the 1st age with morgoth being the main antagonist and getting to see the dragons and balrogs at war
The armor was likely a manifestation of Sauron's chosen physical form, not literally removable plate mail made of sheet metal. So when he put the ring on his hand, of course it was over his "armor".
Of all the comments, this one makes the most sense, and the one I will use in my head every time I watch the movie from now on. I had always thought of him as inside the armor, but to be shape shifted into the Armor is just genius and seriously makes the most sense 👍
The scene where he is in battle is terrifying. Elrond sees him and stands there with his mouth hanging open. When Elrond is scared you are done. Swinging his hammer and 10 men go flying 70 yards. Absolutely insane. If I saw that I’d slowly back away to the edge of the troops then RUN!
I think encasing him works quite well. The evil of Sauron is his darkness and ability to scheme and corrupt people. He isn’t a horrible mutant demon, he’s an intimidating figure with a terrifying presence who brings an air of malevolent intelligence. I would compare it to Darth Vader. The scariness lies in the cold suit of armor that hides all hints or semblances of humanity. Peeling it back to show a burned and grotesque creature feels like a disservice to them.
The movies are masterpieces but they do Isildur some unintentional injustice. In book he NEVER succumbs to the ring, he instead spends his time being a fair ruler who practically gave power away to the people INSTEAD of being power hungry. He comes to realize that he is not powerful enough to truly bend the ring to his will. That it will eventually overcome him. Isildur resolves to give the ring to Elrond but is killed on the way to Rivendel. It's a tragic story of a man that tries to right his wrong but ultimately fails. In the books isildur literally repented and was about to bring the ring to Rivendell and apologize as he recognized it was beyond him even for a great numenorean connected to the faithful line of the mighty Elendil I preface the prologue & war, other depictions I LOVE, captured the themes WELL, the vibe of the whole trilogy! The significance of the duel between Elendil & Sauron was Nerffed; (He wasn’t some random old bloke in armour getting smacked around) This man was MIGHTY and gleaming with power which you’ll find out in the great videos you’ll soon react to with joy! * He and Gil-Galad; last true Elven King battled Sauron and slayed Sauron’s physical body and both died in the process. GilGalad was held high by the face for all free peoples to see as he then incinerated his bodily form to a crisp of ash! Isildur was part of the fight too but not as prominently and he just comes up to the body to cut the ring finger off and…. So one example is how easily Sauron is killed in the intro. * • He's set up as this super powered badass, but all you have to do is cut off his finger? That's not how it went down in the book, where the greatest man-king and the greatest elven-king had to double-team Sauron to strike down his body, but were killed in the effort (Isildur then cuts the ring from the corpse). Especially for elves the title of king has many meanings & by the Third Age there isn’t a population large enough to even attempt to such a thing as creating a unified kingdom, which would put a target on their backs, let alone many of them are beyond all of that anyway as it’s seen as doing more harm than anything good. * They also seen what happened when the elves fell upon the swords of their own hubris and passion no matter if it was for the right reasons some of the time. That it always ended up in some sort of tragedy which sometimes even damaged the earth itself. They had long known about what’s called the Long Defeat as ever since Morgoth’s marring of the land itself; pouring his remnants into it that caused the “magic” to slowly drain away from the land itself, which is sad because for ages several clans of elves were born there. even the greatest ancestors were “born” in middle earth awakening to the stars ! Many of who are left have accepted the next phase of their life which is to become councillors, healers and loremasters to those with the heart to listen and the desire to learn. But above all the guardians and custodians of several things and the world itself for as long as they can remain!❤ The elves “exist” as long as the world does. And Tolkien made it obvious in many ways that it’s our world as he restored Anglo Saxon culture/Mythologies and folklore, and their languages too alongside Irish, Welsh and Finnish mythologies too. Especially Norwegian(of which I am) This is what Amazon (the show that shall not be named) didn’t deliver either [[AKA the actual story which inspired everything we love into existence with games and movies and books and so forth. Skyrim, elder scrolls, oblivion, Diablo, and world of Warcraft and D&D. And Game Of Thrones was hugely inspired by Tolkien… yet as the godfather of everything and the heart of what caused many peoples lives to be saved cannot get the justice it deserves for adaptations? People literally conquered cancer because of the books and the trilogy, the books were read to their children for years. All 25 of them. The man was a hugely respected scholar and professor in the world. Translated ancient artifacts and hieroglyphs and petroglyphs and so forth for the government etc. (JRR Tolkien even rejected being recruited into the CIA several times & he wrote everyone by letter and referenced the dudes who came to him as “little boys who knew not what they got themselves into” which showed his fearlessness.). The readers of the trilogy that came out are who he writes back to despite always replying to everyone back and forth. Many people have shared the stories regarding these conversations which were past down throughout the family lines of the people who had a personal relationship with Tolkien which was hundreds of people when he was alive. Thousands. (Some are in video format too or happened to be shared later on in the video or comes up during a video about him and his work. Especially nowadays when many of us came out of the woodwork to defend professor Tolkiens legacy from amazons money grubbing hands and so forth. Giving many channels a new lease on life where some make Tolkien related content now amongst other things they create content wise.
@@user-xo2xm7sb3v what’s that mean? And what significance does it have to anything I said?. Feel free to actually engage in the discussion thread here below the comment. That’s what it’s all about. It’s how we are. ❤️
@@user-xo2xm7sb3v nah. We Tolkien lovers and mythology/language/culture lovers are able to write longform, even by hand because we’re just that dedicated. Plus it’s very good for your brains health to keep a strong memory and so on!
@@user-xo2xm7sb3v half a book? Nah. Add something worth while to say if you’re going to waste your own time to talk to me. Why waste your valuable time?
The biggest flaw of the trilogy for me is Elrond telling Isildur to "cast it into the fire, destroy it", it makes Isildur look power hungry and easily corrupted, whilst also making it seem that Elrond is resistant to the corruptive power of the Ring. In reality (Tolkiens Lore) no being could over come the evil of the Ring whilst standing in Mount Doom, it's power is too great even for someone as powerful and wise as Elrond
Not sure how you can spin it like that, considering that he literally didn't do it like in the books, either by limitations or they wanted to make it more "cool".
@@kedabro1957 As it's said in this short, it was luck. Did Isildur know what will happen if Sauron dropped the ring? I don't think so. He just swinged the sword to defend and got lucky.
There was actually a deleted scene of Gil-Galad being apart of the prologue battle. It would have involved him confronting Sauron before being burned alive just by Sauron grabbing him. However it was cut since, according to Peter Jackson, it would take a bit to inform the audience who Gil-Galad was, which meant it was also a bit of a run time issue. And when I mean cut, I mean the scene didn’t get properly developed like all the stuff in the extended cuts. All you can really find is one or two images of the scene; one with just Gil-Galad and the other being of Gil-Galad and Sauron.
That whole scene in the beginning of fellowship has felt more like an artistic representation of what happened rather than a historical account. Purely visual for the audience.
If his finger was cut off, the ring would fall off him whether it was under or over his armour anyway. It was probably worn outside his armour for intimidation tactics. To show everyone that he is the wearer of the One Ring
@@Vital_form not necessarily - but it was fair to portray him that way - the armor was not actually armor it was his own form. He was a master at shapeshifting
You gotta admit, for those who didn't read the book, it did add to the perception of the immense power of the ring and Sauron. I think it was an effective way to go about it.
In the movie, obviously the audiences needed to see the ring, while cutting it off his finger, it gave a better understanding why Mordor became weak without it.
Can't have all that backstory and the big baddy having been properly beaten once before. The movie makers were pretty damn good at adapting. Slight improvements could've been made but few.
Yep. You'd have to explain GilGalad Elendil and the entire Last Alliance and how that wasn't possible in the time of Aragorn. You'd need an entire movie. PJ fixed all this the way he did it. It wasn't a perfect fix, but there was no other way.
Lots of things needed improving. Such as not cutting out entire characters and events that were integral to the plot of the story. Not adding tons of crap that weren't in the story. Just like they did with the Hobbit movies they butchered the story and changed it into something thats an insult to the creator of the books
@@Ralph_Roberts no you didn't. We had that already with the books. What you got was a visually impressive dumpster fire that only made money until fans realized that it was crap
Gil-Galad and Elendil the Tall, the High Kings of Middle Earth, were both brilliant warriors. It must have been a brilliant and terrible sight to witness three of Middle Earth's greatest warriors battle on the slopes of mount doom.
Haven't seen anyone else say the obvious here. But Peter Jackson pretty much had to show the ring over the armour at the start. The enemy of the films might be "Sauron" in name but it's actually the ring and pretty sure they say that in the behind the scenes stuff. Most of the film work and decisions were on how to get audiences accustomed to the ring and its powers. And so it had to be visually shown.
THANK you. So many of those creative liberties recreated massive plot holes in those movies...... ...... but this one did yield some freaking sweet lacrosse gloves.
Tolkiens art, the only official art of Sauron, does probably depict him in armor, as he seems to clearly wear a helmet while having non-biological shapes making up the shadows of his body.
Or that shape above his head is to represent the pure darkness and energy making up most of his being at the time, reaching out into the world with this body being a physical manifestation of thos darkness and acting as his "hand" in the physical world.
@@alhassirakhdugani5813 I think it is a helmet because theres a shade of grey right around his orange eyes, as if he is wearing a black helmet with eye socket holes revealing his grey skin underneath. Sauron in the 3rd age is a reflection of Morgoth the same way many things from the earlier ages kind of repeat themselves at a smaller scale, for example Aragorn and Arwen being like Beren and Luthien, I think the shapes Tolkien depicted on Saurons head represent Saurons version of the famed iron crown of Morgoth. Sauron is the "King of the Earth" after all, I think it is safe to assume that he would wear a crown.
Sauron is actually Maria. He is not locked into human, does not require food or drink. So one could say because of his corruption to the darkness, he took on parta/forms of armor to keep his body bound also to give a more identifiable shape. This is why after he was released from the armor / prison he became the eye.
No he couldn't manifest metal out of thin air, the created bodies of the Ainur are subject to basically the same restrictions as bodies by birth. And Sauron is a crafty smith, he had the means and motivation to forge his own armour set. That being said, it's likely but not stated that Sauron wore armour.
It's a movie and the ring needs to be seen because of the chosen medium. Not everything needs to be explained with lore. Though if you want, one could argue the scenes where we see Sauron-As-He-Was to be a work of imagination and whoever imagined that scene in their mind didn't really stop to think he realistically wouldn't wear a ring over his armor.
I actually prefer how the movie displays the event. It not only plays into Sauron's arrogance, as he leaves his weapon out in the open, out of thinking that he is invincible, but it also shows that humans can also put up a fight against him as well, istead of just elves being able to fight against him. It makes humans feel as important to the story as the other races.
Because Sauron was nothing but spirit, kept alive by his armor. His form was destroyed when Numenor itself was destroyed, Tolkien says this this during the fall of the Numenor.
I like to think that it was his arrogance. He was showing off how powerful he was with The Ring. The Ring itself would strike fear in his enemies, and seeing it together with its Master would have multiplied that effect.
I wonder what Disney will do with LOTR. Sassy Sauron with pink hair maybe. Or instead of the ring on his finger, he wear the ring on his....okay, thats it.
I have a question for the book readers. Why did the ring gave only invisibility powers to the common ppl who wore it? Why not any other or extra powers? I know if Gandalf would ever wore it he'd not just be invisible but a super bad wizard.
It was a good creative liberty. Sometimes you have to deviate from the book a little, because translating literature into film requires it, or makes it better.
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I dont think we will ever se a movie triology like LOTR. Thank you peter Jackson!
Truely. Those movies are so exceptional that it's easy to forget how brave some of the choices they made were, because doing the books 1:1 wouldn't work. Maybe Tolkien wouldn't enjoy it, but a lot of Tolkien fans thought it was worth while even at the time.
The dark knight.
Lotr were my childhood man epic movies. Though i would like to see a new movie or even trilogy about the 1st age with morgoth being the main antagonist and getting to see the dragons and balrogs at war
@@iarenubie78lol
They were also awsome but old to now@@iarenubie78
All we know about the dark Lord is that he looks like a dark Lord. Got it.
That is very Tolkienian
it's a master description XD
The armor was likely a manifestation of Sauron's chosen physical form, not literally removable plate mail made of sheet metal. So when he put the ring on his hand, of course it was over his "armor".
Of all the comments, this one makes the most sense, and the one I will use in my head every time I watch the movie from now on. I had always thought of him as inside the armor, but to be shape shifted into the Armor is just genius and seriously makes the most sense 👍
Nice take
Well... Tolkien's estate wasn't too keen on the films... so who knows??
@@joelewis1493except that he wasnt able to shapeshift anymore at that point in time
The ring also resizes? He also could've worn real gauntlets to protect the ring?
sauron didn’t want to hide his drip 💦
The Dark Lord was a bit of a narcissist 😂
The saying goes Drip or Die for a reason
God, can't you people keep your stupid modern sayings out of this shit.
new generation bullshit talk
@@TheSolarium18 okay boomer
Tolkien's illustration of Sauron reaching across the sky as he is dispersed and blown away after the destruction of the ring is awesome.
Were is that paint? Never seen it
The scene where he is in battle is terrifying. Elrond sees him and stands there with his mouth hanging open. When Elrond is scared you are done. Swinging his hammer and 10 men go flying 70 yards. Absolutely insane. If I saw that I’d slowly back away to the edge of the troops then RUN!
And Elrond had seen Sauron in combat during the War of Sauron and the Elves in the Second Age, but maybe not as he appeared when he lost the Ring.
I feel like Peter Jackson put him in armor because he didn't feel like he could bring Tolkien's true vision of sauron to the screen.
Plus Brad Pitt was probably busy that day.
Got to leave something to the imagination to make him truly frightening.
one has to recognize, anyway, everyone knew immediately who he was just as we saw him in the movie. So, the armor appearence is truly well made
I think encasing him works quite well. The evil of Sauron is his darkness and ability to scheme and corrupt people. He isn’t a horrible mutant demon, he’s an intimidating figure with a terrifying presence who brings an air of malevolent intelligence.
I would compare it to Darth Vader.
The scariness lies in the cold suit of armor that hides all hints or semblances of humanity. Peeling it back to show a burned and grotesque creature feels like a disservice to them.
The movies are masterpieces but they do Isildur some unintentional injustice. In book he NEVER succumbs to the ring, he instead spends his time being a fair ruler who practically gave power away to the people INSTEAD of being power hungry.
He comes to realize that he is not powerful enough to truly bend the ring to his will. That it will eventually overcome him. Isildur resolves to give the ring to Elrond but is killed on the way to Rivendel. It's a tragic story of a man that tries to right his wrong but ultimately fails.
In the books isildur literally repented and was about to bring the ring to Rivendell and apologize as he recognized it was beyond him even for a great numenorean connected to the faithful line of the mighty Elendil
I preface the prologue & war, other depictions I LOVE, captured the themes WELL, the vibe of the whole trilogy! The significance of the duel between Elendil & Sauron was Nerffed; (He wasn’t some random old bloke in armour getting smacked around) This man was MIGHTY and gleaming with power which you’ll find out in the great videos you’ll soon react to with joy!
* He and Gil-Galad; last true Elven King battled Sauron and slayed Sauron’s physical body and both died in the process. GilGalad was held high by the face for all free peoples to see as he then incinerated his bodily form to a crisp of ash! Isildur was part of the fight too but not as prominently and he just comes up to the body to cut the ring finger off and…. So one example is how easily Sauron is killed in the intro.
* • He's set up as this super powered badass, but all you have to do is cut off his finger? That's not how it went down in the book, where the greatest man-king and the greatest elven-king had to double-team Sauron to strike down his body, but were killed in the effort (Isildur then cuts the ring from the corpse).
Especially for elves the title of king has many meanings & by the Third Age there isn’t a population large enough to even attempt to such a thing as creating a unified kingdom, which would put a target on their backs, let alone many of them are beyond all of that anyway as it’s seen as doing more harm than anything good.
* They also seen what happened when the elves fell upon the swords of their own hubris and passion no matter if it was for the right reasons some of the time. That it always ended up in some sort of tragedy which sometimes even damaged the earth itself.
They had long known about what’s called the Long Defeat as ever since Morgoth’s marring of the land itself; pouring his remnants into it that caused the “magic” to slowly drain away from the land itself, which is sad because for ages several clans of elves were born there. even the greatest ancestors were “born” in middle earth awakening to the stars !
Many of who are left have accepted the next phase of their life which is to become councillors, healers and loremasters to those with the heart to listen and the desire to learn. But above all the guardians and custodians of several things and the world itself for as long as they can remain!❤ The elves “exist” as long as the world does. And Tolkien made it obvious in many ways that it’s our world as he restored Anglo Saxon culture/Mythologies and folklore, and their languages too alongside Irish, Welsh and Finnish mythologies too. Especially Norwegian(of which I am)
This is what Amazon (the show that shall not be named) didn’t deliver either [[AKA the actual story which inspired everything we love into existence with games and movies and books and so forth. Skyrim, elder scrolls, oblivion, Diablo, and world of Warcraft and D&D. And Game Of Thrones was hugely inspired by Tolkien… yet as the godfather of everything and the heart of what caused many peoples lives to be saved cannot get the justice it deserves for adaptations?
People literally conquered cancer because of the books and the trilogy, the books were read to their children for years. All 25 of them. The man was a hugely respected scholar and professor in the world. Translated ancient artifacts and hieroglyphs and petroglyphs and so forth for the government etc.
(JRR Tolkien even rejected being recruited into the CIA several times & he wrote everyone by letter and referenced the dudes who came to him as “little boys who knew not what they got themselves into” which showed his fearlessness.). The readers of the trilogy that came out are who he writes back to despite always replying to everyone back and forth.
Many people have shared the stories regarding these conversations which were past down throughout the family lines of the people who had a personal relationship with Tolkien which was hundreds of people when he was alive. Thousands. (Some are in video format too or happened to be shared later on in the video or comes up during a video about him and his work.
Especially nowadays when many of us came out of the woodwork to defend professor Tolkiens legacy from amazons money grubbing hands and so forth. Giving many channels a new lease on life where some make Tolkien related content now amongst other things they create content wise.
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@@user-xo2xm7sb3v what’s that mean? And what significance does it have to anything I said?. Feel free to actually engage in the discussion thread here below the comment. That’s what it’s all about. It’s how we are. ❤️
@@user-xo2xm7sb3v nah. We Tolkien lovers and mythology/language/culture lovers are able to write longform, even by hand because we’re just that dedicated. Plus it’s very good for your brains health to keep a strong memory and so on!
@@user-xo2xm7sb3v half a book? Nah. Add something worth while to say if you’re going to waste your own time to talk to me. Why waste your valuable time?
The biggest flaw of the trilogy for me is Elrond telling Isildur to "cast it into the fire, destroy it", it makes Isildur look power hungry and easily corrupted, whilst also making it seem that Elrond is resistant to the corruptive power of the Ring. In reality (Tolkiens Lore) no being could over come the evil of the Ring whilst standing in Mount Doom, it's power is too great even for someone as powerful and wise as Elrond
Most of the time Peter Jackson made good choices with his creative liberties, this was one of them.
It speaks volumes of the respect Peter Jackson had for the lore that he took creative liberties but still brought forward the spirit of the books.
Not sure how you can spin it like that, considering that he literally didn't do it like in the books, either by limitations or they wanted to make it more "cool".
Well even if he wore it under the gauntlet, if Isildor cut the right finger off it would have had the same outcome.
But he wouldn't have known where to aim.
@@kedabro1957 As it's said in this short, it was luck. Did Isildur know what will happen if Sauron dropped the ring? I don't think so. He just swinged the sword to defend and got lucky.
@@kedabro1957 oh facts but that’s why I said “if” he cut the correct hand.
@@artw3 That is film-only though.
I would live to see a cinematic display of the fight between Gil-Galad, Elendil, and Sauron.
There was actually a deleted scene of Gil-Galad being apart of the prologue battle. It would have involved him confronting Sauron before being burned alive just by Sauron grabbing him.
However it was cut since, according to Peter Jackson, it would take a bit to inform the audience who Gil-Galad was, which meant it was also a bit of a run time issue. And when I mean cut, I mean the scene didn’t get properly developed like all the stuff in the extended cuts. All you can really find is one or two images of the scene; one with just Gil-Galad and the other being of Gil-Galad and Sauron.
Black armour is scary. Towering obsidian monstrosity is a different kind of scary
If not friend then why made out of friend. UWU
Not really, Obsidian is brittle. Steel is much scarier, because it actually works as armour. Steel is also black.Just don't polish it.
@@erikhamann I was clearly referencing the colour, rather than the material.
Well it was a beautiful creative liberty. Thank you Mr Jackson
Anyone know how id find the name of the background music?
That whole scene in the beginning of fellowship has felt more like an artistic representation of what happened rather than a historical account. Purely visual for the audience.
It was a cool creative liberty, sometimes such liberties work out like in Starship troopers or How to Train your Dragon
Sauron wore the ring on the outside of his armor in the movie because it looks badass.
@@DGFX-67 it wasnt armor it was the form he took _
If his finger was cut off, the ring would fall off him whether it was under or over his armour anyway. It was probably worn outside his armour for intimidation tactics. To show everyone that he is the wearer of the One Ring
@@SpremeCalami it was not armor - it was the form he actually took
A “towering dark lord” would almost certainly be armour clad even if not explicitly said so.
@@Vital_form not necessarily - but it was fair to portray him that way - the armor was not actually armor it was his own form. He was a master at shapeshifting
I understood him wearing outside his armour but I never understood why he reached out to grab an already defeated foe lmao
Tldw: it's a cinematic tool to shortcut the taking of the ring with minimal narrative clarification.
Edit: typo
You gotta admit, for those who didn't read the book, it did add to the perception of the immense power of the ring and Sauron. I think it was an effective way to go about it.
Tldw on a short is wild
@@brOblio
It helped me. My phone speaker sucks and my eyes are too bad to read the captions hidden behind all the HUD crap on the video.
Sauron is like a Skyrim giant, clad in Daedric armour, swinging the Mace of Molag Bol. What can man do against such reckless hate?
In the movie, obviously the audiences needed to see the ring, while cutting it off his finger, it gave a better understanding why Mordor became weak without it.
Not giving form to Sauron made him infinitely more horrifying as an embodiment of evil
Can't have all that backstory and the big baddy having been properly beaten once before. The movie makers were pretty damn good at adapting. Slight improvements could've been made but few.
Yep. You'd have to explain GilGalad Elendil and the entire Last Alliance and how that wasn't possible in the time of Aragorn. You'd need an entire movie. PJ fixed all this the way he did it. It wasn't a perfect fix, but there was no other way.
Lots of things needed improving. Such as not cutting out entire characters and events that were integral to the plot of the story. Not adding tons of crap that weren't in the story. Just like they did with the Hobbit movies they butchered the story and changed it into something thats an insult to the creator of the books
@jasonandrus4977 boohoo we only ended up with the best trilogy ever made.
@@Ralph_Roberts no you didn't. We had that already with the books. What you got was a visually impressive dumpster fire that only made money until fans realized that it was crap
@jasonandrus4977 no the original pj trilogy is still highly praised. The dumpster fire is rings of power.
Gil-Galad and Elendil the Tall, the High Kings of Middle Earth, were both brilliant warriors. It must have been a brilliant and terrible sight to witness three of Middle Earth's greatest warriors battle on the slopes of mount doom.
Isildur: “Dibs”
For me I like to think he was so arrogant that he believed that none of these lesser beings could hurt him. Thous leading to his doom.
One drip to flex on them all 🧊
Man wasn't gonna hide his jewellery
I love you series. I have the extended version of every one of them. Thank you for this information. I wondered this myself
Because you never hide the drip, while you stunt on the haters 😎
Shit is so iconic I don't care if the armor is book canon or not
Sauron would be very angry about cigarette prices these days.
@@AA-xm7rt yip. When I was a kid they were 25 cents a pack. Imagine how cheap they were back when Sauron was around.
Nice, seeing the true sauron as Tolk painted it.
He did it so that we could see it in the story.
"Burning, black skin" is really difficult to imagine. Tolkien definitely had a way with words.
I like your channel. It’s a good up and coming channel among the LOTR lore channels. Best of luck and wishes as you find your niche in this world.
Your narration and artwork is superb. Thank you for the video and the artists for those pictures.
A fight scene like that would been so worth it tho
Haven't seen anyone else say the obvious here. But Peter Jackson pretty much had to show the ring over the armour at the start.
The enemy of the films might be "Sauron" in name but it's actually the ring and pretty sure they say that in the behind the scenes stuff. Most of the film work and decisions were on how to get audiences accustomed to the ring and its powers. And so it had to be visually shown.
It wasn't luck, it was destiny.
To sum it up, he wore the ring over the armor in the movie SO YOU CAN FUCKING SEE IT ON SCREEN
His appearance was apparently quite horrific to behold
THANK you. So many of those creative liberties recreated massive plot holes in those movies......
...... but this one did yield some freaking sweet lacrosse gloves.
Tolkiens art, the only official art of Sauron, does probably depict him in armor, as he seems to clearly wear a helmet while having non-biological shapes making up the shadows of his body.
Or that shape above his head is to represent the pure darkness and energy making up most of his being at the time, reaching out into the world with this body being a physical manifestation of thos darkness and acting as his "hand" in the physical world.
@@alhassirakhdugani5813 I think it is a helmet because theres a shade of grey right around his orange eyes, as if he is wearing a black helmet with eye socket holes revealing his grey skin underneath.
Sauron in the 3rd age is a reflection of Morgoth the same way many things from the earlier ages kind of repeat themselves at a smaller scale, for example Aragorn and Arwen being like Beren and Luthien, I think the shapes Tolkien depicted on Saurons head represent Saurons version of the famed iron crown of Morgoth. Sauron is the "King of the Earth" after all, I think it is safe to assume that he would wear a crown.
Aaaa ,ok ,this actually makes sense 🤔
Even if Sauron wore the Ring UNDER the Gauntlet, his FINGERS were still cut off. The Gauntlet provided no protection in this case.
It's likely the king used most decorated armour and it was a stormy day by wizards shouting on every mountain
Peter Jackson did a better adaptation than almost anyone in modern history
One simple answer: For the drip.
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How cool would it be to see the first war in movies
Love the movies but this sounds much cooler.
I think Sauron would have worn it on the outside the arrogance he had believing no one could defeat him in single combat. It just makes sense to me.
In a way it’s like the ring put the armor on itself, as Sauron placed himself inside the ring.
Sauron is actually Maria. He is not locked into human, does not require food or drink. So one could say because of his corruption to the darkness, he took on parta/forms of armor to keep his body bound also to give a more identifiable shape. This is why after he was released from the armor / prison he became the eye.
Over, under. The blade cut straight through his fingers. Armor and everything.
“So the audience could see that shit.”
He was iced out and didnt wanna hide it
The armor was his body he manifested as such when he wasn't in his beautiful form.
No he couldn't manifest metal out of thin air, the created bodies of the Ainur are subject to basically the same restrictions as bodies by birth. And Sauron is a crafty smith, he had the means and motivation to forge his own armour set.
That being said, it's likely but not stated that Sauron wore armour.
Cause it looks badass. That’s why
I think it was the correct decision his Ego would demand all to see that He wears The One ring to Rule them All
Just like Superman wearing his undies on his trousers
So like a jinn, made of smokes of fire😮
Awesome dude. Love the artwork use and quality you bring as always!
It was his new fresh look
It's a movie and the ring needs to be seen because of the chosen medium.
Not everything needs to be explained with lore.
Though if you want, one could argue the scenes where we see Sauron-As-He-Was to be a work of imagination and whoever imagined that scene in their mind didn't really stop to think he realistically wouldn't wear a ring over his armor.
Whether the ring was outside his armor or under it you’d still have to cut through the armor to cut it off. Moot point.
I haven't read the books yet, but I think Sauron is some kind of entity, or deity, made of energy and so. Not a regular physical body
He IS the armor
Title: "Why?"
Answer: "He didn't"
He must of had skinny fingers for the ring to fit over his armour and still fit Frodo
Jackson and the rest of the writers were careful when they diverged from Tolkien. And he tended ro reel them back if they went too far
Peter Jackson did a masterpiece.
I actually prefer how the movie displays the event. It not only plays into Sauron's arrogance, as he leaves his weapon out in the open, out of thinking that he is invincible, but it also shows that humans can also put up a fight against him as well, istead of just elves being able to fight against him. It makes humans feel as important to the story as the other races.
I prefer the version, where Sauron would't be defeated without cutting off the ring xd
Yes. Thats why its called an adaptation of the books. Movies were a masterpiece.
The same way Batman wears his underwear on top of his pants 😂
Isildur (like Aragorn and the rest of that line) were beardless btw.
They were also uncommonly TALL
The Ring only fits to the Wearer that it chooses 👿
Because Sauron was nothing but spirit, kept alive by his armor. His form was destroyed when Numenor itself was destroyed, Tolkien says this this during the fall of the Numenor.
Okay, but that still doesn't answer the question "why."
Tolkien changed names, roles and events so much that his son had trouble sorting it all out to make a story with few inconsistencies possible.
im more wondering how a sword cut off his fingers through his gauntlet
I like to think that it was his arrogance. He was showing off how powerful he was with The Ring. The Ring itself would strike fear in his enemies, and seeing it together with its Master would have multiplied that effect.
He suffered extreme weight loss after the move to mordor, i hear the food there is lacking..... So the ring was too big for his finger
No I have not, but it's interesting to know that Peter Jackson made that decision.
Tq peter Jackson for the OP Sauron
of course he would run: mage armour perks
The book does say he wears great black armor. I just read it.
Peter Jackson took lots of creative liberties. Almost like it was a different story altogether.
I wonder what Disney will do with LOTR. Sassy Sauron with pink hair maybe. Or instead of the ring on his finger, he wear the ring on his....okay, thats it.
Sounds like he was actual a wraith in form. Ghostly figure that held within the armor. Making it his skin. so having the ring inside wouldn't work
I have a question for the book readers. Why did the ring gave only invisibility powers to the common ppl who wore it? Why not any other or extra powers? I know if Gandalf would ever wore it he'd not just be invisible but a super bad wizard.
the narrator sounds like jared harris
Peter Jackson's fan fiction
It was a good creative liberty.
Sometimes you have to deviate from the book a little, because translating literature into film requires it, or makes it better.
But you get lots of precise trees and rivers description in the books😅
It was so that movie viewers can see it. It's that simple.