Right, okay. I’d just like to say something, speak my truth, and I beg of you not to come for me Silmarillion fandom
unpopular opinion: Sauron is always twinkified to hell, and it’s annoying.
In SO much fandom, he’s portrayed as really slender, effeminate, usually to play into the idea of being ‘dominated’ by Morgoth, or to be a femme fatale temptation corrupter kind of figure for the likes of Celebrimbor and Ar-Pharazôn.
which is okay!!! Draw him how you want, it’s your hc, and there is so much AWESOME art of him out there! But it annoys me that this has become the primary interpretation when it’s so, idk, implausible.
like? Morgoth’s terrifying right hand? His sinister torture master? The dark commander of Angband? Most likely his chief blacksmith too? So many interpretations that make him this twinkish (for lack of a better word) figure are just not as intimidating as they plausibly would be. The vast majority ive seen seem to be more focused on making him sexy, which he certainly would have been sometimes, when the situation called for it. But I REALLY doubt how appealing he looked was on his mind when he was torturing Maedhros to within an inch of his immortal life, or gleefully having his wolves devour Finrod and Beren’s friends slowly one by one in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth.
and then there’s Annatar. OF COURSE he would have been divinely beautiful, that was the point. He gave radiant a new definition. But Tolkien describes him as ‘a man of great power and stature’. That’s literally the only description we’re given, that and his angelic beauty. Now, great power can be given a lot of faces, but great stature tends to imply a person is like… really fucking tall and muscular, when used in the physical sense. So the approach of him being this very slim, shorter-than-Celebrimbor, boytoy-ish kinda guy is… an interesting one, to say the least. He’s convincing the Mírdain he’s a friend and Maia of Aulë. I’m guessing he would’ve wanted to look like one, and blacksmiths don’t tend to be as slender as he’s commonly portrayed.
and yes I KNOW he’s a shapeshifter and can probably change his muscle mass as he pleases, but why would he do that? He’s there to seduce Celebrimbor with POWER at the end of the day, as much as some would hate to admit that. For that, he’s going to want to seem powerful himself, or the deception will fall pretty flat. And anyway, I’d just like to remind you all that Celebrimbor was actually on team ‘hey this Annatar fucker is dodgy as shit’ when he first rocked up, along with Galadriel, Celeborn, Elrond and Gil-galad, until he WAS seduced with the promise of power and renown, not with how good Annatar looked in a skimpy smithing outfit (though that may have been a bonus).
and then Zigûr. That is the most viable place for twink Sauron, but even then, the whole point of THAT is that Pharazôn felt good for dominating and defeating an incredibly powerful dark Lord. So I’d imagine Sauron would want to seem immensely threatening for a while until he settled in, that in itself being a way to suck up to Pharazôn’s ego, then after that he starts the seducing.
Anyway, that’s pretty much all from me. I just don’t think Twinkron is a particularly interesting (or at all likely) concept, and would like to see some other interpretations become more prevalent. Where my eldritch demon/big scary blacksmith torturer dude Saurons at y’all?
(also I’m just obsessed with the idea of wolf lord Sauron being in Mannish form. For the hairy/beard aesthetic lmao, shoot me)
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