'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.
2008, Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, Little, Brown (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
The archenemy, the Sauron of the literary press in the eyes of Tolkien's champions, is the late American critic Edmund Wilson, who dismissed The Lord of the Rings as “juvenile trash.”
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.
[…] in works like 1979's "PAA and WDK," in which menacing eyes sit atop manic columns of color, gazing out like miniature Saurons to make sure gallerygoers are behaving themselves.