How big is Sauron?

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:47 pm

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.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:50 pm

He's a spirit isn't he? Doesn't that mean he's has big has he wants to be?

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:19 pm

He's a shapeshifter. Depends which shape he is wearing.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:44 pm

This guy/shape here:

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:29 am

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.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:31 am

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.

The Necrontyr Messenger · Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:59 am

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.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:19 pm

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 Necrontyr Messenger · Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:24 pm

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.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:52 pm

@Robert: I guess you plan something with Sauron regarding to the TGOD.....

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:04 pm

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.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:13 pm

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.

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

The Necrontyr Messenger · Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:41 pm

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.

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