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How tall would Morgoth and 👁️Sauron have been.?

I'd assume since they could change their forms, they could make themselves as tall or short as they wanted to. I doubt Tolkien ever wrote a specific height for them but also would guess they'd make themselves taller than the average elf or human so that they'd appear imposing to others.
 
It would seem at least Sauron, when he was cowed by the might of the Numenoreans of old, and when through deceits he feigned friendship with the Elves and aided them in ring-craft, wouldn't have been too massive and imposing... more "common and normal" looking.

One might assume, as does EA, their form chaned with their situation, circumstance and objective. Perhaps much like Beorn the shapeshifter - their size changed with their rage etc.
 
It would seem at least Sauron, when he was cowed by the might of the Numenoreans of old, and when through deceits he feigned friendship with the Elves and aided them in ring-craft, wouldn't have been too massive and imposing... more "common and normal" looking.
Ah that makes sense for when he was Annatar, lord of gifts. I was thinking more when he was in battle and/or leading morgoth's forces around.
 
"Sauron should be thought of as very terrible. The form that he took was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic."
Letter 246
"[Q. fana] was used of the “raiment” or “veils” in which the Valar presented themselves. These were the bodily forms (like those of Elves and Men), as well as any further vestures, in which the Valar were self-incarnated. [...] The future forms of the bodies of Elves and Men they knew, though they had no part in their making. In these forms they presented themselves to the Elves (though they could assume other and wholly alien shapes), appearing usually as persons of majestic (but not gigantic) stature."
NoMe, Visible Forms of the Valar and Maiar
 

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