Big Bad: Of the Bright Lord DLC and all of Shadow of War.Berserk Button: He does not like people playing with the One Ring.Annatar is easily the prettiest character in the series, but has the blackest, most cruel of hearts. Beauty Equals Goodness: Averted spectacularly.At the end of Shadow of War, Sauron succeeds in absorbing Celebrimbor into himself, but as a result ends up (seemingly involuntarily) turning into an immobile giant flaming eye for his trouble, losing many of his more useful powers. Be Careful What You Wish For: Shadow of Mordor made it pretty clear that Sauron was hunting Celebrimbor in order to absorb his power.And way, way in the future, the One Ring finally overtakes Frodo's mind right on the slopes of Mount Doom, almost guaranteeing that Sauron will retrieve the Ring with no trouble. Sauron can't interfere directly, since his defeat and forcible assimilation of Celebrimbor ends up stripping him of most of his powers and trapping him in the form of the Lidless Eye. Talion was corrupted by Isildur's ring and becomes one of the Nazgûl, but manages to resist him long enough to keep Sauron's armies off-balance until Frodo gains the One Ring, thanks in no small part to his nifty new Ringwraith powers. unfortunately for him, he's often loath to call them triumphs. The Bad Guy Wins: Sauron wins and triumphs over every opponent he meets face to face.

The only thing he gets in exchange is some long range True Sight, an immense downgrade from the threat he was. This means he can't physically manifest and negates most of his best powers. In the end, Sauron absorbs Celebrimbor, but they both end up fighting for control over their fusion and it puts them in Mode Lock in the form of the Eye above Barad-dûr. Assimilation Backfire: A rather big one.That being said, the Assimilation Backfire listed below provides a handy explanation as to why he doesn't have those powers by the time The Lord of the Rings rolls around. In the games, he still has it, and is apparently able to project telepathic messages to unwilling recipients from hundreds of miles away, and possibly also teleport. In the events of the books, Eru deliberately takes away his ability to assume an attractive form after the Downfall of Númenor. Adaptational Badass: Vastly more powerful than in the original books, and notably because he lacks a canon handicap.Defeated long ago by the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, he has returned to Mordor after a two-and-a-half thousand year absence. The second Dark Lord to terrorize Middle-earth.

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