Also thinking about how there’s a billionaire Tolkien fan who names all his stuff after Tolkien things, and wants to extend his life unnaturally and funds weapons and the surveillance and centralized/corporatized authoritarian control
I would like to point out that canonically, he was not "corrupted", but a... different term:
“Of old there was Sauron the Maia, whom the Sindar in Beleriand named Gorthaur. In the beginning of Arda Melkor seduced him to his allegiance”
-- "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
(IYKYK)
