I just got a response from Lego customer service, I hope this sheds some light on all of us:
Dear Richard,
Thanks for getting in touch with us.
I'm a huge Lord of the Rings & Tolkien fan, so I certainly understand your wishes! I've always thought that Sauron would be very hard to 'bring to life' in a physical sense, but the movies did a great job with it. We could probably make a slightly-larger-than-life minifigure based on that image.
No new sets or characters have been announced, but there is always a possibility of us doing more with the line.
In the meantime, I will be sure to pass your comments along to our team of designers.
Thank you for your feedback!
We want to make sure we're doing a good job for you, so you’ll always find the link to a four-question survey in our emails. Please tell us how we did today:
LEGO Survey link
Please let us know if you need anything else.
Happy building!
Emily
LEGO® Service
Did You Know?
In 2013 the LEGO Group made about 500 million minifigures. If you put them next to each other in a line, it would stretch approx. 11,500 kilometers. That’s more than the distance from Billund in Denmark to Singapore in Asia!
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