#tow lore

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I think the reason Sauron never really messed with dwarves or dwarven kingdoms on the same level as Men or Elves is because every time he looks at a dwarf he just thinks of Aule and that makes him crash out a little bit.

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I think it's incredibly funny that he gets the name Sauron in the First Age when at that point he's basically just an overworked, over-glorified, and overly-harassed secretary.

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Morgoth pretends he isn't bitter that Sauron basically ghosts him after the Isle of Werewolves incident.

Morgoth also makes Carcharoth a custom red and gold collar that says "Lieutenant", lets him sleep in Sauron's old office, and makes everyone keep filling out paperwork so that Carcharoth can eat it.

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Morgoth sitting on his throne all day brainstorming increasingly disturbing and convoluted trolley problems.

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Do you think Morgoth makes Sauron write evil monologues for him?

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Thinking about how Men and Elves could sometimes blame Morgoth for things, assigning maliciousness to parts of nature he had no role in.

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I think Morgoth, along with having a very fluid physical form that can change into a horrible goopy tar monster at will, has a very fluid height.

And by that I mean if you're just hanging out/not fighting, he will clock the tallest person in the room and change his own height to be juuuuuuuuust taller than them. Just a little bit. To make them mad.

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The funny thing in Tides of War (and the fact that the Nazgul are so... like that) is that at any point in time, at ANY point in history, Sauron could have shrugged and gone, "You know what? New Nazgul."

Like there is NO reason he has to stick with the first random Men he picked. Which means even when Sauron is furious with them, even when he is sighing and face palming and so annoyed with the fact that he's stuck with THESE nine people specifically he never replaces them.

Which means he actually likes them ♡