JJ48
Well-Known Member
As far as Sauron goes, we don't know his origins in LOTR. The fact that 'nothing was evil in the beginning' becomes a tasty little morsel. It begs us to ask the question as to whether Sauron was evil from the start. Of course, the legendarium confirms he was not. But a reader of LOTR doesn't have that knowledge.
I mean, we don't have the specific origin story, but the text explicitly tells us he wasn't evil from the get-go in the very next sentence.
"For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so."