Quenya

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Mairon

  1. the Admirable, ancient name of Sauron

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changed when he was suborned by Melkor, “but he continued to call himself Mairon the Admirable, or Tar-mairon ‘King Excellent’, until after the downfall of Númenor”. We are perhaps to understand that Mairon is a translation by sense of Sauron’s original Valarin name.