Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27586321-20150325020945/@comment-27560932-20150325041044

It's the fact that the only real character and backstory he was given in the Silmarillion was copy-and-pasted from the classic "fallen angel." Aside from that, I guess he works as a presence, and a manipulative bastard, but presence alone does not make a threat, and Palpatine, the other famous Big Bad, did the "manipulative bastard" part so much better. I just feel that Sauron fails as a character. Not necessarily a villain, but as an interesting, engaging character. He's a force of evil, but not much else to me.