Basically agree with Аverroës. Peter Jackson's vicious and unprovoked assault on my childhood must end at once.
and it is later discovered in the other books that the necromancer was actually one of Sauron's top henchmen.
Not a henchman, but the big bad himself. Incognito, hiding out in the sticks (literally). Though it is unlikely that this was the case when the book was first written (Middle Earth being one of those fantasy worlds - the Discworld being another (ironic?) example - that grew exponentially in the author's head more or less off its own initiative, or at least its own logic).
And the story of how, exactly, he was driven from Dol Guldur Tolkien never got around to even sketch.
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