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Sauron
 The Dark Lord of Mordor

full regalia with gloves (upper right) -- see note below
regalia without gloves (upper left)
without regalia (lower right)

After working on so many Elves, I think my Muse felt a need to do something a bit darker, and you can't get a whole lot darker than this.  The reason I put Sauron here in the Elder Days rather than in the Ages of the Sun is because I wasn't planning on making him look like the completely armor-covered version of Jackson's movie.  This Sauron would be mid-to-latter Second Age, in the years between the first War of the Rings, when Sauron destroyed the Elves of Eregion in his anger over his failure to dominate them with the One, but before the destruction of Númenor, after which he was never again able to assume a fair-seeming form.  I wanted him to look dark and threatening, but not hideous, and I think I succeeded.

If you detect simiilarities between his costume and Morgoth's, this is deliberate.  Sauron was the first Dark Lord's lieutenant and protege, and in his own attempts to dominate Middle-earth, he would doubtless have used any tactics of Melkor's that he felt he worked efficiently, down to aspects of an imposing appearance.  (That it made the meshes a little easier to construct was actually a minor consideration, since the helmet/crown had to be unique to his head, and would not have been exactly the same as Melkor's Iron Crown, lacking the three Silmarilli.)

A note about the differences in the two "regalia" versions:  Both of them will drop the accoutrements when the character changes for bed or swimming or whatever, but the one with the full gloves, as pictured on the upper right, will always have black hands.  I haven't figured out how to get the game to switch hand skins when the body shifts meshes, and while the eternally black hands would have been appropriate for Melkor (whose hands were forever burned by the heat of the Silmarils when he stole them), it may not be to the liking of those who want to have Sauron in their game.  And if someone is more familiar with hand-skin naming conventions and how to get around this problem, I'd appreciate a bit of advice.