![]() Some of Sauron's worst acts took place during the Second Age, and we'll likely see some (or many) of them in the upcoming Amazon series. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories, Sauron was a master liar and manipulator, and the Skeksis take more than a few tips from Sauron's Playbook for Being Horrible (a collection we've put together on the side, not an officially authorized release). In both the First and Second Ages of J.R.R. He has transcended into an existential, all-consuming doom - but before he turned into that giant eye, he had a body. It's not really fair to compare the Skeksis with the Sauron that we see in Rings, as he no longer has a "human" body and exists only as a giant flaming eye. Upon examination, it was surprising to me how similar the two villainous entities were/are. So, then, how do these new and un-improved Skeksis match up against one of the greatest evils that fantasy has ever known? What happens when you study them alongside Sauron from The Lord of the Rings? (Heck, they're even worse than the worst person in all of Harry Potter, Dolores Umbridge.) They are scarier than Queen Bavmorda ( Willow), and nastier than the White Witch ( The Chronicles of Narnia). These self-indulgent, gluttonous, lying, gaping maws of evil make Voldemort look somewhat decent by comparison. ![]() We knew that they were bad, but now they're bad on a level that firmly places them in the upper pantheon of the worst villains that the fantasy genre has to offer. These monstrous vulture-skeleton things whimpered and screeched their way to villainous fantasy glory, but they really stepped up their game in the Netflix prequel The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. The Skeksis have terrified everyone from the moment that The Dark Crystal was released in 1982.
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