All he had to do was to build a small orc outpost next to the entrance of mount doom

> All he had to do was to build a small orc outpost next to the entrance of mount doom
Why was Sauron so retarded?

He didn't feel the need to, since One Ring can't be willingly destroyed in the Mount Doom. That Gollum thing was a complete accident, which is the only was to destroy the ring.

Insufficient knowledge of hobbitses.

who would have been so retarded and destroy the most powerful artifact in the world? You must have been a complete madman to even contemplate that

Because
A) Mount Doom erupts frequently, and would probably erase such outposts
B) He thought that nobody could get into Mordor unobserved
C) He wasn't aware that anyone would even think of trying to destroy the Ring, let alone would sneak a couple of hobbits into the heart of his realm to carry out such an insane plan.

Letter 246 implies that Frodo, in absence of Gollum, could have retained enough will to make the jump himself, and that seems to be Tolkien's original idea of the things, to further cement Frodo as a proto-Christ figure sacrificing himself for the world.

then he probably remembered suicide is a big sin for caths, not good for messianic symbol.

All he needed is to hide the ring under armor

In the books, it's pretty clear that he's defeated first, and Isildur takes the ring off of his "corpse", not like how it is in the movie where he slices it off the finger in a save the day moment.

This. Sauron was already defeated by Elendil and Gil-galad when Isildur took the ring as weregild.

Is it suicide off it's a sacrifice?

How did he get wrecked while wearing it?

Because then you have to deal with stupid, smelly, ugly, ill-mannered Orcs living next you every day.

there is a reason christ got killed and not just offed himself to complete his mission.

He was just beaten, and it wasn't the first time. He narrowly escapes capture at Gwathlo, well before the War of the Last Alliance, and guys like Gil-Galad and Elendil are really tough.

Plus, LoTR is essentially myth, it's not something built like DnD where there's objective power. Sauron, when fleeing for his life after his main army was crushed at Dagorlad and his personal fortress was about to fall is way weaker than he is when things are going his way. This is a world where there's literal narrative power.

Best ending would be Frodo by himself about the destroy the ring, then he starts turning around only to be met by Gandalf.
"Whoops" says Gandalf as he kicks Frodo into the lava.

I would put nothing near a fucking volcano

More so, who would venture into one?

Unlikely. As long as Frodo's still around and with the ring, the Nazgul are 'alive' and heading to the mountain. They'll likely interfere with any attempt to get anyone else to the area.

power is subtle in LotR and doesn't always equal actual physical prowess. You shouldn't take 'Sauron will become unstoppable with the One Ring' as meaning 'he will smash shit SO HARD with his warhammer nobody will be able to stop him'

Morgoth whose power fucking dwarfs Sauron's nearly got wrecked by Fingolfin and if you take the Dagor Dagorath prohecy as canon then ultimately he gets killed by a mere mortal as well

>Morgoth whose power fucking dwarfs Sauron's nearly got wrecked by Fingolfin
Morgoth at the end of the First Age was weaker than Sauron with the One Ring. And even then, it's made pretty clear that Fingolfin never had a chance against him.

He was surrounded by 4 epic heroes and nuked 2 of them before going 2.

*going down (leaving 2)

Plus, isn't it pretty strongly implied that the whole business with Numenor exploding with him in it pretty permanently damaged him as well?

For sure he was not able to go full bishonen after that.

>Why was Sauron so retarded?

He did build a small orc outpost next to the entrance of mount doom, though.

Like, the whole valley just before mount doom was literally filled with orcish shanty towns n' shit.
The only other passage leading into mount dooms general area was guarded by that scorpion+spider shelob.

Are you implying he should have built it right on the fucking volcano?
It's an active volcano, user- it's already as dangerous as it's going to be!!

Weren't Sauron and Shelob bros as well? Didn't the two of them knock over the 2nd ages equivalent of the sun at some point?

"Love hath no greater man than he who would lay his life down for a friend." I think they'd be okay with it.

So basically, the more powerful you are... the more powerful you get?

Gil-galad was king of all the elves in middle earth with the power that entailed, Elendil was a fuckhuge numenorean king. As in almost 8 feet tall.

That's their bigger version, Morgoth and Ungoliant.

Sauron was just content to have Shelob there, the did not care much more than her insticts.

You're probably thinking of Morgoth and Ungoliant destroying the two trees of Valinor at the tail end of the Years of the Trees

All the "ages" are implicitly from the Years of the Sun, which come after. The sun and moon were created from a fruit and a blossom of the trees

Isildur was said to be a pretty tough SOB too, if I recall.