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From: jon.lennart.beck.its.my.name@mail.its.in.danmark
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> Two Towers, The Departure of Boromir:
>
> ‘S is for Sauron,’ said Gimli. ‘That is easy to read.’
> ‘Nay!’ said Legolas. ‘Sauron does not use the elf-runes.’
> ‘Neither does he use his right name, nor permit it to be spelt or
> spoken,’ said Aragorn.
> Return of the King, The Black Gate Opens:
> The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dûr he was, and his name is
> remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and he said:
> ‘I am the Mouth of Sauron.’
> He always was a bit of a rebel, ey?
A story-external explanation is of course that Tolkien made an
inconsistency - goofed, forgetting the former passage when writing the
latter and not noticing during revisions. My best guess of a partly
story-internal explanation is that Sauron did indeed refuse the name Sauron
("the Abhorrent"), which was given him in abhorrence by the Elves. He would
have disliked that mockery intensely. Some people do want to torture the
World until the World fears, loves and admires them. What the Mouth said in
Westron did not then include the name Sauron - but in the translation into
English the name was used, to avoid unnecessary complications. A wholly
story-internal explanation is that whoever related the latter incident to
Frodo had heard the Mouth using Sauron's preferred name but found that
wholly inappropriate, and substituted Sauron's right name - as they saw it.
Did the Mouth refer to his master as Tauron, perhaps? Heruardo, or its
Black Speech equivalent? Or even Eru? The latter two or similar would
especially be regarded as blasphemous by Sauron's enemies, sufficiently
versed in the history of Arda, and the more appropriate "Sauron" substituted
when Frodo wrote his piece.
Hræfn.
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