Definition of "Sauron"

'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]

2004 January 8, “The story goes on being relevant”, in Birmingham Evening Mail

For aspiring Saurons and Darth Sidiouses, the game allows the player to fill the boots of a big evil Overlord with a handful of minions to start out with.

2007 February, “Overload”, in GameAxis Unwired, page 12

Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein.

2013, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander G. Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, & Alexander Jenkins, Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular, University of Chicago Press, published 2013, page 196