The Lord Of The Rings' 10 Most Evil Female Villains
The eponymous villain of The Lord of the Rings was a man, despite appearing as a giant, disembodied eye in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, but there were female villains in the story, too. They were just buried a little deeper in the legendarium than most characters. Sauron, the Lord of the Rings, was a Maia, the order of Ainur below the 15 Valar - Eru Ilúvatar's first-created, semi-divine species. Discussion of Ainur nature in Morgoth's Ring revealed that Ainur could pick any body but were innately female or male. This interesting takeaway applies to all evil Maia women.
There could have been a few evil Maia women in The Lord of the Rings, but high fantasy master J.R.R. Tolkien painted his characters in broad strokes, and left details like species unclear regarding a fair few characters. What was clear was that some of The Lord of the...
There could have been a few evil Maia women in The Lord of the Rings, but high fantasy master J.R.R. Tolkien painted his characters in broad strokes, and left details like species unclear regarding a fair few characters. What was clear was that some of The Lord of the...
- 11/29/2024
- by Cristina Trujillo
- ScreenRant
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