Sauron Annatar

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I was interested in how Sauron might looked when he was able to take up a noble appearance, and also like his strategy too to trying to corrupt men and elves simply by turning their own wishes against them, just as he destroyed Númenor with words.

_{Seeing the desolation of the world, Sauron said in his heart that the Valar, having overthrown Morgoth, had again forgotten Middle-earth; and his pride grew apace...Men he found the easiest to sway of all the peoples of the Earth; but long he sought to persuade the Elves to his service, for he knew that the Firstborn had the greater power; and he went far and wide among them, and his hue was still that of one both fair and wise... Sauron took to himself the name of Annatar, the Lord of Gifts...It was in Eregion that the counsels of Sauron were most gladly received, for in that land the Noldor desired ever to increase the skill and subtlety of their works... Therefore they hearkened to Sauron, and they learned of him many things, for his knowledge was great. In those days the smiths of Ost-in-Edhil surpassed all that they had contrived before; and they took thought, and they made Rings of Power. But Sauron guided their labours, and he was aware of all that they did; for his desire was to set a bond upon the Elves and to bring them under his vigilance.
Now the Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was
bound up with it, to be subject wholly to it and to last only so long as it too should last. ~quote from Silmarillion}