Sauron

From the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊ(ə)ɹɒn/, /ˈsɔːɹɒn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊɹɑn/, /ˈsɔɹɑn/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsæoɹɔn/, /ˈsoːɹɔn/

Sauron (plural Saurons)

1. An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
   • 2004 January 8, “The story goes on being relevant”, in Birmingham Evening Mail:

     'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]

   • 2007 February, “Overload”, in GameAxis Unwired, 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.

   • 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, published 2013, →ISBN, page 196:

     Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sauron.

The first pronunciation listed (for each accent) was the one intended by Tolkien.^[1]

Sauron

1. (astronomy) Alternative form of SAURON

• Ruanos