Recalling his most early efforts as a powerful servant of Aulë the Smith, Sauron temporarily set aside ringmaking during the Second Age and rolled up his sleeves for a new project. Using palantir imagery from Beleriand to Númenor, Google Middle Earth (GME) stitched together a lifelike, almost real-time model of the western Arda continents that could be zoomed into view locations in great detail.