Sauron
See also: sauron
English
Etymology
From 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”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
Sauron (plural Saurons)
- An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
- 2004, "The story goes on being relevant", Birmingham Evening Mail, 8 January 2004:
- 'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]
- 2007, "Overload", GameAxis Unwired, February 2007, page 12:
- For aspiring Saurons and Darth Sidiouses, the game allows the player to fill the boots of a big evil Overlord with a handful of minions to start out with.
- 2013, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander G. Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, & Alexander Jenkins, Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular, University of Chicago Press (2013), →ISBN, page 196:
- Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sauron.
- 2004, "The story goes on being relevant", Birmingham Evening Mail, 8 January 2004:
Usage notes
The first pronunciation listed (for each accent) was the one intended by Tolkien.[1]
Derived terms
References
- ^ J. R. R. Tolkien (1977 September 15) “Note on Pronunciation”, in The Silmarillion, London: George Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310: “the first syllable of Sauron is like English sour, not sore”