and morgoth came

Sauron and Melkor crafting Maedhros' manacle

Full credit to @solsolange who created this gorgeous masterpiece, and who gave me permission to post it here.

A bunch of old Silmarillion frames👍

1- Ambarussa

2- Maglor

3- Caranthir

4- Celegorm

5- Curufin

6- Maedhros

Since we’ve also been deprived of Celebrian/Elrond during the Second Age, here they are :)

@tolkienweek​ 2022 | favorite villain ● faceless | sauron in the second age

For Sauron took to himself the name of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, and they had at first much profit from his friendship…

—The Silmarillion, “Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age”

And Zigûr coming looked upon Anadûnê and the city of Arminalêth in the days of its glory, and he was indeed astounded; but his heart within was filled the more with envy and with hate.

—The History of Middle-earth: Volume IX: Sauron Defeated, “The Drowning of Anadûnê”

But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dûr, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.