Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

imagine a third age Sauron design where he’s trying to hide his vile form, he’s just so used to looking fair whenever he desires, so he wears a mask carved to look like a beautiful face, crown perched atop and long, priestlike robes to echo his time in Numénor. and at one point the mask gets cracked, so it’s just one orange, slitted eye glowing through.

It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.

It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)

As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.

"for Thu had flown to Taur-na-Fuin, a new throne and darker stronghold there to build."

The location is chosen because it's close by and therefore it allows them an oversight of approximately the same areas, and the proximity to Tol-in-Gaurhoth doesn't hurt Sauron personally either, since he's injured and still bleeding when he has to choose where to go.

After all, even if Sauron had not basically advertised his presence, which he did due to the horrors he caused, we know that Luthien mentions Sauron's location to Melkor:

'A lawful errand here me brought; from Thu's dark mansions have I sought, from Taur-na-Fuin's shade I fare to stand before thy mighty chair! '

Because he could have chosen to be anywhere. He could have sat in the king's palace, even on the throne itself, which would also have been symbolic, and no one could have prevented him from doing so, even if they had wanted to. (By that point people had already started calling him a god.)

But instead he chose to remain in a place that not only symbolized his own power over the island, but also connected him to Melkor.

"Look how far I've come and how much I've accomplished. I've avenged both of us now."

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