i know it’s Popular Fanon that sauron took an elvish form while posing as annatar but please consider: stealth eldritch annatar.
like. his teeth are just slightly too sharp to be entirely comforting when he smiles. his eyes seem to burn from within with a feverish, almost unnatural glow. sometimes you think you can feel him watching you, but when you turn to scold him for staring he’s bent over his work, fixated on the task at hand. occasionally, his skin appears to ripple and shimmer, almost imperceptibly, as if struggling to contain something far more powerful than it was intended for. you feel like you should run from him, but there’s nowhere to hide that he wouldn’t find you.
