At the beginning of the Second Age Sauron was still beautiful to look at, or could still assume a beautiful visible shape – and was not indeed wholly evil, not unless all reformers who want to hurry up with reconstruction and reorganization are wholly evil, even before pride and the lust to exert their will eat them up.
But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dur, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.
‘you say it,’ said morgoth. ‘i am the elder king: melkor, first and mightiest of all the valar, who was before the world, and made it. the shadow of my purpose lies upon arda, and all that is in it bends slowly and surely to my will. but upon all whom you love my thought shall weigh as a cloud of doom, and it shall bring them down into darkness and despair. wherever they go, evil shall arise. whenever they speak, their words shall bring ill counsel. whatsoever they do shall turn against them. they shall die without hope, cursing both life and death.’
his hands were burned black by the touch of those hallowed jewels, and black they remained ever after; nor was he ever free from the pain of the burning, and the anger of the pain.
So I was talking with my brother about Tom Bombadil and obviously at one point the “what if he’s a Valar” came up and my brother said that he could be a physical manifestation of that little part of Melkor’s mind which regrets, feels guilty and is trying to relieve stress by living close to the nature I’m done with LotR theories (╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻
Yes and the Goldberry is actually a part of Sauron’s spirit
…it could be a nice justification for popular theory of “The Hidden Evil-Bombadil”
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