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#1 How big is Sauron?

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:47 pm
by Robert Walper
What the topic title asks...from "Lord of the Rings", how big is Sauron? Seems like a huge character, but roughly how tall is he? And specifics on his physical dimensions is appreciated.

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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:50 pm
by frigidmagi
He's a spirit isn't he? Doesn't that mean he's has big has he wants to be?

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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:19 pm
by Cynical Cat
He's a shapeshifter. Depends which shape he is wearing.

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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:44 pm
by Robert Walper
This guy/shape here:

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:29 am
by frigidmagi
Looking at the movie, the men in armor seem to come up to his lower chest or thereabouts. Assuming the men are between 5 and 6ft that would make Saron between let's say 8 to 10ft tall. In other words really fucking tall, about Troll size.

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:31 am
by Robert Walper
frigidmagi wrote:Looking at the movie, the men in armor seem to come up to his lower chest or thereabouts. Assuming the men are between 5 and 6ft that would make Saron between let's say 8 to 10ft tall. In other words really fucking tall, about Troll size.
Yeah, I have the DVD myself. But it was hard to gauge his height. For example when Sauron is swiping at and sending airborn a dozen or more enemies with his mace, he seems even taller than that.

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:59 am
by The Necrontyr Messenger
Fifteen feet (or so I recall one of the RotS DVD appendicies saying) in FotR. That form, however, is non-canon. His actual form is most likely about seven feet, in keeping with elf and numenorian sizes.

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:19 pm
by The Grim Squeaker
I remmember seeing an exhibit in the science museum with his armour and i'd say about 1.6 times the height of an average adult man.

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:24 pm
by The Necrontyr Messenger
Dark lord of the megas wrote:I remmember seeing an exhibit in the science museum with his armour and i'd say about 1.6 times the height of an average adult man.
The armour was blown up (size wise) in the first film. He was depicted at 1:1 scale in the third film (holding a palantir, and in the deleted scene with him confronting Aragorn.) though.

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:52 pm
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
@Robert: I guess you plan something with Sauron regarding to the TGOD.....

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:04 pm
by Robert Walper
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:@Robert: I guess you plan something with Sauron regarding to the TGOD.....
Yeah, but I'm hoping to get a relatively accurate size of him first to appropiately write him up, etc.

#12

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:13 pm
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Robert Walper wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:@Robert: I guess you plan something with Sauron regarding to the TGOD.....
Yeah, but I'm hoping to get a relatively accurate size of him first to appropiately write him up, etc.
Alright, I read many adult novels in my live, but NONE of them has ever featured Sauron. :shock:

This is your warning KAN, you keep that crap in testing. No spamming threads in my areas with this shit.

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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:41 pm
by The Necrontyr Messenger
Robert Walper wrote:Yeah, but I'm hoping to get a relatively accurate size of him first to appropiately write him up, etc.
That's easy. Eru put in abeyance his ability to take on fair form, but Sauron was never body-fixated in the same way Morgoth became. Sauron can still shapeshift, it'll just all be unpleasant looking to the average human.