He would throw a big party, and invite all his favorite orcs. 😊

“Except there is one problem…Sauron is a massive liar” And there the battle for middle earth has begun…again

I always saw the 'reasonable' terms delivered by the Mouth of Sauron as being a case of judging the best way to sow division in Aragorns army . Offering nothing would have made them dig in with nothing to lose. Offering generous terms would be too incredible to be believed. Offering something a bit punitive but with a way out would be credible enough to weaken resolve of enough to reduce fighting strength a bit.

It would be fitting to Tolkien if Sauron ushered in an age of industrialisation, something that would work better with hordes of men than with the crude orc. Think hulking steam engines hauling resources across Middle Earth to whatever project of Saurons fancy. Probably making at least one mountain sized statue of himself.

Personally I think Sauron would rule over all of Middle-earth as a god-king. The various kingdoms of Men who submit to his rule would probably be arranged as satrapies, ruling in Sauron's name over their peoples but also being given significant autonomy. As long as tributes are paid, worship of Sauron (and by extension Morgoth) is maintained, and people don't cause uprisings, I would think Sauron would leave a lot of realms to their own devices. Gondor would for sure bear the harshest brunt of Sauron's wrath, probably being destroyed rather than forced to submit. Gondor is a constant reminder of hated Numenor, and Elendil and his lines. He would not tolerate their existence, so he would probably bring the hammer down on them. Minas Tirith might be transformed into a twin of Minas Morgul, and Dol Amroth and other cities either being razed or taken over for Sauron's servants. The people of Gondor would probably be enslaved wholesale. Rohan would probably be forced to submit to him, with a portion being partitioned off for the Dunlendings. Rohan's ability to raise horses would be very important for Sauron, plus good agriculture. So I think the realm might survive, but the line of Eorl would probably be destroyed or exiled, being supplanted by some other ruler. Probably the Mouth and any descendants he might have... The Dwarves would probably either shut their doors for all time, or try to offer tribute or deals to Sauron. The Longbeards would cease to exist, but the other Dwarf houses would probably linger on. However, it is the Orcs I feel would have a shocking fate meted out to them. They were historically unreliable and Sauron treated them as tools rather than as a people. Orcs are also, by nature, chaotic beings, so they are an antithesis to a entity so strongly aligned to Order such as Sauron. So I personally think Sauron would either exile them to remote areas of Middle-earth, where they would not be of much trouble for him again, or just have them destroyed. The various human realms under his rule might be enlisted to help in the latter case, in return for benefits from Sauron. Hobbits kept the Ring from Sauron towards the end of the Third Age, and represent innocence and freedom. Sauron would either enslave them or worse. After all, Fell beasts and other monsters of Sauron need to eat too... Any Elves that escape Sauron's clutches would probably leave Middle-earth forever and never return. The Valar would probably not intervene, as they had laid down their guardianship of Arda at the end of the Second Age. They would consider the fates of those in Middle-earth to be out of their hands from that point. They would _not_ intervene until Dagor Dagorath.

He'd invent Amazon.

So, basically it'd be like living in a HOA.

I believe there might be even more to Sauron's grudge against Numenor-& the later realms in exile-than merely being defeated by them during the War of Elves & Sauron. Numenor (& Gondor/Arnor) are ruled by the descendants of Luthien, & I think he still harbors a grudge over Luthien's humiliation of him on the Isle of Werewolves.

I think one major thing being ignored is the wave of industrialization that would follow Sauron's conquest. Infighting wouldn't necessarily reign supreme as you stated, partly because its counterproductive to efficiency, especially on an industrial scale. The Orcs would be phased out or relegated to a warrior caste while Men would be corrupted and/or forced to construct and build massive factories and tear down the natural splendor of Arda to help build whatever Sauron wants. You'd end up with a totally environmentally devastated landscape ruled by power hungry Sauron-aligned tyrants that oversee factories that build things for Sauron and continue to innovate in his name. Basically an industrial dystopia with no real end goal except infinite growth and efficiency.

1:37 No one that asks you to bear no weapons, is willing to give peace. People should know that by now, but apparently some of us forgot it.

If Sauron won and then decided to go into space, I'm pretty sure that his empire would be almost identical to the Imperium of Man from Warhammer40k

I always thought that Sauron's terms were a real compromise out of necessity. His biggest army was destroyed in the siege of Minas Tirith, his Umbar mercenaries too, and all other assaults over Middle Earth have failed. I dont think there is any indication that Sauron believes Aragorn and the forces of good are actually using the ring, just that he believes they are keeping it and might become corrupted by it. Sauron's peace offer to me was genuine, but temporary: he wants breathing time because his forces are depleted, and he knows that even if Aragorn's assault probably wont succeed, the remaining orc and easterling legions would be too damaged and this would set back his plans to continue assaulting the west and trying to get the ring or break the humans resistance, whatever comes first.

It’s interesting Morgoths goal was the opposite of good. He wanted chaos and evil. Sauron actually wanted order. He just wanted order by power and force. If he won he would have forced all the peoples to follow his supreme rules “for their own good”. The little people would not have a voice because they were insignificant compared to him. Basically tolkien was inferring sauron was a persona of the world. Those in power will always look to put order in the world as they see fit, but they will drown out people they see beneath themselves and force them to follow the laws they put in place.

That last sentence makes me believe Sauron is in command and snatching every Mfer's birthday.

I would LOVE to see an opinion video on why the Istari, and Gandalf in particular, utterly failed to prevent the destruction of the three Northern Kingdoms. Over a period of 974 years it appears that as free-ranging counselor Gandalf did little or nothing to bolster or stave off the aggression of Angmar. Why? Where was he? Was he hanging with the elves while the Northern Kingdoms disintegrated and fell to ruin? Did he, at the time, simply see the aggressions of Angmar as having nothing to do with the ultimate success or defeat of Sauron? Did he mistakenly view the entire period of war and strife as a squabble amongst human kingdoms--events that lie outside of his purview?

As explained by Tolkien, Sauron after the first age was truly repentant and he was not evil but for his great urge to build and put things in order. He was a bit like Germany after WW2 (My comparison, not Tolkien's!). But because his pride did not allow him to submit to the judgement of the Valar (Who would probably assign him a pennance like they did with Melkor earlier on), left to his own devices, over time, as he would draw on Morgoth's power which was still baked into the fabric of Arda, as he would struggle with adversity, he would grew more and more hateful; Tolkien's sources disagree as to whether he ever got close to Morgoth's level of evil. I recall one line saying he has became the living image of Morgoth, sometimes even claiming to be Morgoth himself who has returned; and nearly just as evil. But it is said elsewhere that Sauron never reached Morgoth's depths of destructive nihilism. He just wanted to bend eveything to his will and destroy those, who would oppose.

Always ask yourself, in tricky situations, what would Sauron do? Rob a jewelry store is a modern alternative possibility. Diamonds are forever and a master ring is a girl's best friend after all

First thing that comes to mind is that he'd open two fastfood chains and claim they would compete with each other while secretely working together to spread obesity throughout Middle-Earth...

A question, is what does Sauron do with the orcs? If he doesn't slaughter them all they will seize territory that in virtually every case can be more productively ruled by tributary human kingsoms.

"LOL git gud, scrubs!" -Sauron after his victory. Probably.

the interesting thing is that while he likely would not be very kind to Gondor, Rohan, the Dwarves, the Elves, the hobbits especially.. The Mannish Realms already under his rule are actually doing surprisingly alright. Rhun is pretty much thriving with the only conditions being worshipping Sauron, offering a tithe and answering a call for war when its required. Harad equally, tithes and the call to war along with the worship but they're thriving. He's not a benevolent leader by any means but he's not 100% pure evil to those that are loyal to him at the very least. Which honestly makes him a lot more interesting than a disney-level villain whos evil just for the sake of needing a bad guy for the story

Your advice at the end really goes to the heart. I’ll endeavor to be even more useless in case a real life Sauron shows up.

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Amazing video bro thanks I believe after he conquers middle earth, he knows the Vala will intervene sooner or later so he would multiply his orcs and forteresses to get even stronger... he wont attack but will expect to defend from an attack Also middle earth is huge I believe if theres no intervention he would spread for the hole map in thousands of years

So, here is a follow-up question. If Sauron does win, do the Valar ever intervene in Middle-Earth to put an end to him? I can just imagine them meeting and going "well the plan with the 5 Maia didn't work so what do we do now?"

I think Sauron would actualize enterprise scale opportunities to expand core competencies and mindshare in order to drive best in class exponential potential. In other words despoil, exploit and ruin.

I think he was telling the truth in his terms. He clearly learned to give up his pride when victory required it after he was taken as a prisoner to Numenor. There is nothing glorious about whispering in the ear of a king who originally put you in chains and made you bow to him, but he did what he had to do. I think in the case of this treaty, Sauron knew if he gave the people these fairly easy terms, that many would probably lower their guard against him which would allow him to strengthen himself to the point where he could eventually demand more if the kingdoms of men ever refused to pay tribute or gave him any resistance. Sauron was not all-powerful and he was aware of this, despite the movie depiction of him being Satan.

I like how the imagery of Darth Gandalf videos goes hand in hand with his descriptions. At 6:50 he describes how Sauron would turn Minas Tirith into a dark fortress, not mentioning Minas Morgul, but its image is shown. Brilliant. The reality of Middle-Earth under Sauron would be much better than 1984. If he loves efficiency, then he will reward efficient people. A Tolkien Hater could even say that Sauron would overthrow the stagnant monarchies and establish Meritocracy XD

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The game ends and he starts a new round of Age of Empires 2.

I'd like to preface the following wall of text by saying that I do get the point of this video. I clicked it, after all, and I quite enjoyed this take on it. I think the real, albeit boring answer, is that Sauron *couldn't* have won. The fact that the Valar didn't intervene and only sent the Istari in the form of Gandalf, Saruman, and others, ties in well with the idea that Tolkien didn't write the story to show how good triumphed over evil. As evidence for that, remember that the Valar barely even intervened against Morgoth, who was undoubtedly a much bigger threat than Sauron, and even then they only intervened after being begged to do so. Tolkien seems to have written LotR as a way of showing us that evil loses because of *what evil is*, not because of the actions of the good that fight them. Remember, Frodo doesn't actually toss the ring into Mount Doom. He *fails*, and Sauron loses anyway. That's important. To that end, the idea that Sauron *could* have won is sort of missing the point of the story, in the sense that one of the core ideas in Tolkien's writing is that evil is very often the architect of its own undoing. Sauron lost not because he wasn't *technically* capable of it, but because he was vain, and arrogant, and prideful, and underestimated not only the Shire-folk in Frodo and Samwise but also the rest of the Fellowship, and the free peoples as a whole. He lost because he literally couldn't conceive of their motivations, nor the measures they would take in order to ensure victory. He thought Aragorn was challenging him because he was arrogant, and corrupted by the Ring, and so on. Aragorn played into this perfectly, because Sauron literally couldn't conceive of a Man willingly taking on a suicide mission. That is to say, Tolkien's whole point in writing the story we eventually got -- if there was in fact a point beyond just telling a story worth telling -- is to show that evil ultimately always loses not because it isn't capable of doing so in a literal, objective sense, but because the very strategies and worldviews that lead a creature to be evil in the first place are the very qualities that prevent them from securing anything resembling a meaningful victory. It's fitting, then, that LotR ends not with Sauron being defeated upon the field of battle, but by Gollum and Frodo engaging in what amounts to a game of cosmic wrestling for a ring neither of them could destroy on their own. Sauron never feared that the ring would be destroyed because he literally could not conceive of any mortal creature being able to willfully destroy it. He reasoned that, faced with the possibility of that level of power, nobody would ever destroy it. He didn't lose because he *had* to lose in a fate sense, he lost because the very qualities that made him such a threat to Middle-Earth in the first place are the very qualities that prevent him from winning when it really matters.

Paperwork, lots and lots of paperwork, even mordor need them and I doubt someone as order obsessed as sauron will let orcs do it, it had to be done by him personally, speaking of orcs I've heard a suggestion once that sauron might destroy them because they're so chaotic and random but idk if that's true since they're his primary forces

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Thank you for the video, it's great material. I hope you make one video supposing Saruman captures the one ring before the Nazgul do.

He'd create a perfectly ordered utopian paradise. Which is his entire motivation.

Let’s see Sauron’s tax policy

I don't think Sauron would be content with anything for long, he would keep pursuing new ambitious objectives just to fill the emptiness within him. The result Ardia would be an awful place to live as he spirals into insanity as his need to fill his existence with something becomes more irrational.

Even 12-year old me reading The Return of the King for the first time called bullshit on The Mouth's terms.

What if Feanor did anything wrong? (since he never did anything bad in canon, that is)

I do have a question that does concern Valinor, but in reverse: would the Valar or Ilúvitar decide to swat Sauron after all even without Sauron attempting to assault Valinor himself? The context I bring to the table is the fact that the reason why the Valar didn't wage wars against evil in Middle Earth after the War of the Powers (that's a conflict that you missed in your War in Middle Earth, by the way 😛) is because doing so causes massive collateral damage, and the Valar didn't want to destroy Middle Earth or its peoples in trying to destroy Morgoth, or, later, Sauron. If Sauron were triumphant, however, then eventually there would be nothing worth not destroying by collateral damage, and everything to gain by creating a new world in its place. Might the actual ultimate consequence of Sauron winning the War of the Ring be that Middle Earth would be left, like Beleriand and Númenor before it, beneath the waves?

Also, regarding the terms sent by the Mouth: I think Sauron sent them, because he had no reason not to. Aside from the reasons you mentioned, I think Sauron thought that maybe there's a chance (even if it's like a 0,00001% chance) that his terms would put some doubt in the hearts of the Coalition's members or something similar. He thought that he had already won - Coalition attacks, he beats them; Coalition retreats, he wins by conquest. Best case scenario? A more divided Coalition would deal him fewer casualties at best. The peace terms IMO were meant to be obviously unacceptable, but potentially could make someone think they are fighting a foe that is willing to parley.

sauron would be a great guy to get a drink with.

The destruction of the Ents would be tragic. The Palantir would be gathered, and relocated. The hunt and extinction of the Eagles would be epic. Sauron commands through his fave palantir (the Denethor Burning Hands model). Why rush?

Great video

Well, it wouldn't help Middle Earth's tourism industry...

Good Analysis.

I think there's a bigger question missed by this video which you might want to consider examining in a follow up. What would Ilúvatar do if Sauron won?

Great great video…

A pivotal point is when Aragorn takes the path of the dead. If Sauron prevents this and manages to kill Aragorn, the war is still not over. With Minas Tirith in ruins his forces will still have to defeat the rest of Gondor and the Swan knights, who will rally around their local leader. Saruman having defeated Rohan, would be another battle Saruman would have to fight. Orthanc would be rebuilt afterwards to guard passage to the West and fanghorn burnt to the ground. With the South and West secure, eyes would turn towards Galadriel.

Nice video but I'm surprised you didn't mention Dagor Dagorath. Maybe Sauron in control over the world finds a way to help Melkor through the Door of Night.

Mithlond/Lindon was one of Sauron's prime targets. With the destruction of the Grey Havens the remaining Elves would have no path of evacuation to Valinor and would be forever tormented by Sauron.

It’s always sunny at the Barradur.

He actually did rule for several years in Middle Earth during the second age, he taxed, was a dictator of course, but left people to their own devices, and focused on his research.

He might have a bit of hobbit tea and a couple of nice baked lembas biscuits. Followed by a Dwarven steam bath and a nap.

If you want a basis for a psychological map of Sauron, you can't do much better than exploring his time as a Maia of Aule. There are some subtextual hints that Aule's relationship with the life-goddess Yavanna led to jealousy among Maia who regarded Aule's inorganic / metallic works more worthy. Also the direct statements of how much Aule's work and Melkor's work overlapped in the earliest ages. Sauron may have adopted Melkor as a surrogate father, feeling abandoned by Aule when he started working with Yavanna. Whatever Sauron wanted to do with unfettered power, it would probably have involved metal.

good video is it ok if I ask you a question?

I have this feeling that if Sauron did win the war and was left to go on about conquering all of Middle Earth would be something the Valar would have to eventually intervene against and put a stop to him. If Sauron were just left to his own devices and in charge of the world, whats to stop him from going to work figuring out a way to open the doors that hold Morgoth in the timeless void and bringing about the Dagor Dagorath? If Sauron does that then its all inevitable anyways. The entirety of Valinor would be set upon the world with all of the fallen Elves and Men that had been slain by Morgoth and the world would be completely destroyed and remade again with the Silmarils being used to bring back the Trees of Light. I would have to imagine there would be a concerted effort to keep that from happening and seeing as how Sauron is about the only one left capable of trying to make it happen then the Valar would indeed come and swat him down.

I could totally see Sauron having a few hobbits as court jesters, not for comical reasons but just to frequently show them the ring as a reminder of their faulure.

Sauron sounds a lot like another eastern potentate in that peace negotiation with a free people with a charismatic leader. :D

We would never know the difference because history is written by those who have hanged hero’s.

How about a version from Sauron’s point of view, like how the book “Wicked” told the Oz story from the witches side. Sauron is just trying to get his lost property back and everybody is coming after him for doing that. And a Broadway musical version would be hilarious.

If Sauron won it would be temporary (relatively) I think. Eventually Illuvitar or the Valar would have to intervene and destroy or banish Sauron.

Great video. In my opinion, I think Sauron would go out to destroy both Rivendell and Lorien as he saw them as threats. The realms of men he would enslave and add new leadership such as Black Numeroneans to rule Gondor and Rohan to make them serve and worship him and do his bidding. Isengard I believe would go to the Mouth of Sauron to control the area. Durins Folk and the Elves of Mirkwood would put up a fight in the north, but they would eventually perish or escape further north where Sauron influence is scarce. I think he would make all these kingdoms worship him but he would rule them through his 'selected' leaders as to not be too out in the open, to not catch the attention of the Valar or Iluvatar. After everything is under his command and control he would further focus on the East and South of Middle-Earth, and he would use his Puppet Kings to conquer the rest. With the ages there would be revolutions and heroes but none would be able to stop the God-King until Dagor Dagorath where Sauron would welcome his Master and fight with all his might and eventually lose to the Mighty Host of the Valar and all of Saurons ancient enemies.

Minion: "So what are you going to do when you destroy the world?" Sauron: "Oh, I don't know... stand around a gloat a little?"

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Here’s my thoughts. Sauron would turn Minas Tirith, along with Osgiliath into piles or rubble or make them like Minas Morgul. Secondly he’d torch Lothlorian and corrupt it like he did to the great forest. Then corrupt the hall of Thranduil, maybe destroy Erabor. Then completely wipe Rivendell off the map. Then destroy Lindon so badly it probably shares the fate of Beleriand (to finish Morgoth’s work). After that prepare for the Nier Nieth Ar Noiniead while ruling ad a god king.

It's 10:30pm and the sun is truly set. You should have started the video off with that sunny wish. 😔

My guess is, Sauron would play god until Morgoth and Eru Illuvatar show up and tear him a new asshole to breathe out of.

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5:10 - Maybe he mellowed out in his old age!! >XD

Twelve O nine am and that was fascinating and also made me feel awful. I’m going to watch some Teddy Ruxpin to recalibrate before bed.

He would problably enter in suspended animation after he vanquished ALL his enemys, like xenomorph ore supremacists would.

Great video, thanks for sharing it! Tolkien's abandoned story 'Tal-Elmar' (published in The History of Middle-earth XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth) gives a fraction of an insight into what Middle-earth was like under Sauron's rule in the Second Age, at least for some of the 'Wild Men' living within his dominion - the Folk of Agar. It's not exactly a wonderful time, although the picture is complex. On the one hand, the protagonist, Tal-Elmar regards his situation being "born and bred in a decaying half-savage people". He seems to have some Edainic ancestry and takes a particularly dim view of his current circumstances. Even so, Sauron, pupil of Aulë and lover of order etc doesn't appear to have imparted much in the way of learning or technology. The Folk of Agar live in fear of the Dark and live what reads like a marginal existence. There are fields and farming but starvation is mentioned as a possibility, as well as the depredations of other Wild Men. On the other hand, the town of the Agar, as precarious as it is, is ruled by a 'town-master'. And while Master Mogru comes across as odious, he's not some warlord ruling through violence. The town has a Moot-hill, to which the male population can be summoned when decisions need to be made. This arrangement feels more akin to the situation in Lake-town, with its Master, or perhaps the Folkmoot of Brethil, than say the way the Easterlings organised themselves in occupied Hithlum. In other words, within the borders of a vast tyranny, some of those lorded over by Sauron managed a form of self-rule with a hint of, if not democracy, then at least some form of basic participative government.

I would love for someone to write a story set in a Middle Earth generations after a Sauron victory. Sauron is worshipped widely as a God King, with the societies of men revolving around this fact in their education and traditions, rapid mechanization has catapulted the tech level into a proto-industrial revolution, the countryside polluted, sprawling workshops and quarries, like a nightmarish Victorian England. The conflict could revolve around a wide sweeping guerilla resistance that inevitably springs up against such terrible conditions. Perhaps the mountain halls of the Dwarves in particular become like a Vietnam War equivalent for Sauron as he tries and fails to besiege their fortresses for years.

Middle-Earth would look like every other realm of his

How's that any different than the world we are in today?

The rebellion led by Tom Bombidal

Sounds like the future in _Samurai Jack_

So basically, Sauron just has really, really bad OCD...

I have a suggestion if possible. Would Sauron have tried to free Morgoth from the Doors of Night if given the chance?

It’s partly cloudy but still plenty enough sun

A very interesting video! Middle earth under Sauron rule would be like Stalin USSR. An evil empire based on order,fear,terror,human slavery and war industry. But as we know from our history all those who took power sooner or later there would be someone from Sauron lietenents try to overthrow him but it woud be a big failure.

My question is would he attempt to free melkor?

Good analysis. I think that on a personal level Sauron would take great pleasure in tormenting and enslaving any of his former enemies that fell into his hands. Galadriel would be in a lot of trouble, Elrond and Arwen too unless they could make it to the Havens before they fell. Politically, the Elves would probably be exterminated, the Dwarves driven deep underground, the Hobbits enslaved to feed the armies. With that all done and Sauron having the continent in his grasp, he might then look beyond to other lands - the Dark Land of the South, the Empty Lands where Aman once was, the Lands of the Sun to the East. But under no circumstances would he even attempt to assault Valinor; the Lords of the West were always rather isolationist and might accept his victory elsewhere, but if he annoyed them then he would swiftly be reminded of the difference between a Maia and a Vala. Would the Valar intervene? Gandalf didn't seem to expect them to. At best they might perhaps at some point have sent an expeditionary force under Eonwe, but there's no indication of that, and it's quite possible that the Valar would have been content to let time play out until the end of days.

The Valar only shyed away from direct actions in the third age due to the "battle of the powers" conflict that sought to capture Morgoth, a conflict that brought devastation to middle-earth, though they did not do nothing; for they sent the five Maiar (Istari) to indirectly improve the odds of good to survive and win (thus trying to do as little harm as possible, also why the Istari was not allowed to directly show who they where nor where they allowed to directly combat Sauron).

I would assume a decade after Saurons complete domination of Middle Earth, the Valar would eventually feel forced to intervene like they did when Morgoth pretty much had Middle Earth in his grasp

Had he won? I don't know, sat back had a latte and danish or something?

Tbh Sauron was so order oriented he’d probably just turn middle earth into our modern world with all of the bureaucracy and red tape and rules and industrialization

it was said that during the last alliance members from almost any race fought on both sides. So I can see some dwarf clans accepting sauron after he won

Its pretty clear that the gods of LoTR are myths from earlier ages.

The question is if sauron could forge someting More powerfull than the ring if he had entire middle earth under his control. I think it is interessting to think about that

Sounds like Beleriand just before the Valar decided the only way to be sure was to nuke the entire site from orbit.

I saw a theory once that said if Sauron won, Valinor would respond and send their host to middle earth again, with Tulkas, Aulë and Ëonwë leading the charge, breaking Sauron’s ring and sending him into the timeless void where Morgoth was sent.

Everything is not fine. Our sauron wears a tiny hat and goes to the synagogue.

Long story short, it seems like Sauron would create an Age of Men / Age of Order.

What makes Sauron an excellent and tricky villian at the same time is that he, unlike Morgoth can actually win but appearantly he can not. Morgoth didnt have a conception of “ winning” as everything he wants is beyond impossible ( trying to create independent life, waging war against immortal spirits who will fight with him to the ends of time no matter what and trying to destroy Arda which was stated to be indestructable save Eru ) this makes Morgoth a more grounded villian. You know he cannot win so to appreciate him, you look the amount of destruction he caused to the other beings. He is evil incarnate,source of it a more “elemental” villian contrary to a villian who has plans or a direction. Sauron on the other hand is the only villian in his verse that actually has an “achievable” goal, at least pyshically possible one. Sauron is a character that sembolizes ( not a “type” as Tolkien didnt like it but a character who unescapably has this traits from being “ who he is “ ) the process of corruption and a human being slowly turning into a demon. Sauron, for that reason is a character that shows good sides of him ( both as abiliites and character ( Sauron was stated to be wise, organizer, charismatic but equally foul)) even in the TA just to show what traits makes a character good or bad and a what lack of some morals leads you to become . He survives and defeats his enemies either by this way or another just because Sauron doesnt die, he only chooses another shape after a time and causes evil no less than his previous incarnation. He doesnt diminish like Melkor, or at least his fall is not as devastating as him, so after a certain amount of time it requires divine intervention to defeat him ( all of his bodily defeats came either indirectly or directly from Eru ) and what does this mean? Well this means to appreciate Sauron we dont look to the strength of enemies he faced or kingdoms he destroyed as such things are chaos, something he hated but ultimately become a part of. We instead look at the fact that it required his enemies defeating themselves to actually delaying him. Saurons defeat came from humble hobbits rather than the might of Ar pharazon. His defeat at the hands of the Last Alliance was just a sacrifice made by his enemies to defeat his temporarily weakened form. This themes makes both Sauron and Morgoth great villians. Great irony Melkor whose name is “ He who arises with Might” is defeated by power at the end and Sauron being sembolized by a literal “ Lidless Eye” didnt help him detecting some fragile hobbits sneaking into his realm. In conclusion Morgoth defeats himself and Sauron also defeats himself albeit it requires his enemies defeating themselves first for latter to occur. That makes Sauron, in my opinion more of an abstract entity and a greater concept of evil despite being just another servant of Evil itself.

The terms make sense in a treacherous sort of way. By disarming them they are at his mercy, so he can torment them for decades or even centuries. Since Gondor and Rohan were feudal realms the treaty would overturn their entire mode of organisation, so they could fall prey to all sorts of manipulations if simply breaking the truce wasn't lawful evil enough for him. The lords of both realms, suddenly having their main purpose made irrelevant, would likely be rapidly overthrown by some faction that would be easily corrupted into Sauron's puppets.

Is this Mauler's channel. That damn voice is distinct.

You missed the point entirely. Sauron offered those terms as a ruse to buy time until he could betray the Peace Treaty and eventually win all of Middle Earth with as little effort as possible. The terms were a strategy from Sauron.