75: Sauron's Corruption of Numenor

Lord of the Rings Lorecast

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ar-Pharazon brings Sauron back to Numenor in order to lock him up and keep watch over him. But this plays directly into Sauron's plans.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lorecast, the show that invite the most evil creature in the world back to your home city.
0:45.1	And you bring that creature, that person, in cuffs initially.
0:52.4	But this isn't just anybody.
0:56.5	This situation reminds me a lot of when the Valar threw down Melkor for the first time
1:03.0	and they decided to bring him back to Valenor so they could keep an eye on him.
1:09.7	And in that situation, you had a group of Valar, the most powerful beings in the entire world,
1:18.3	imprisoning one other Valar, who, yes, happened to be more powerful than any of them,
1:24.3	but altogether they could attempt to keep Melkor in check.
1:31.3	In this situation, you have one man deciding that he will keep Sauron a Maya in check.
1:46.7	Those things are just barely comparable.
1:53.2	We've already seen the extent of Sauron's power, manipulation, and the fact that he is the true heir to what Melkor started.
2:10.4	How is this going to go?
2:13.5	Well, exactly like you think it will.
2:19.0	And today's episode, we get to dig into all of those juicy details.
2:25.8	Our fare is on.
2:27.6	You done messed up.
2:29.5	Now we get to watch it unfold.
3:10.0	Music Now we get to watch it unfold. These stories are so good. I just have to imagine the amount of hubris, the amount of pride that somebody like Arfarrison would have to have in order to look at Sauron and yes absolutely he was fooled there was definitely some manipulation going on but to look at sauron to know the history of
3:15.9	everything that had gone on at least according to what he was educated by through the history
3:21.1	that he understood and the elves and and all of that.
3:26.0	And to look at Sauron in the midst of this and go, yeah, I'm better than you.
3:32.9	I'm more powerful.
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