Sauron
Meanings
name
- The title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor.
noun
- An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
name
- Alternative form of SAURON.
name
- Acronym of steep and uneven ring of non-thermal radiation, an ORC (“odd radio circle”) found in the southern sky.
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Etymology
From the Quenya name of the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).
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