Sauron is The Lord of the Rings, literature’s greatest villain and the namesake of J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, but he was bested by a dog called Huan millennia before the Third Age story of the novel and movies. This astonishing defeat is an example of Tolkien’s miraculous storytelling, with the little beating the large in David-Goliath standoffs that reflect one of Tolkien’s key messages – hope, even in the darkest of times. Sauron is an immortal Maia, a Godlike race of superpowered beings, making him very hard to beat. This makes Huan’s victory all the more astounding.
