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Sauron ist ganz bestimmt nicht gütig für alle anderen betrachtet, aber wenn wir von der Natur seines Bösen sprechen, dann ist es ja hauptsächlich seine Motivation die zählt und da kann ich mir schon vorstellen, dass er sich selbst zunächst als gütig, oder zumindest wohlwollend in dem Sinne dessen zeigt, dass er den hilflosen Kreaturen Erus den rechten Weg - seinen Weg - zeigt. "Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt" ist dann die Devise, die auf dieses vermeintliche Wohlwollen folgt, wenn sich die vermeintlich hilflosen und niederen Kreaturen nicht auf die Bevormundung einlassen. Objektiv gütig ist er in keinem Fall aber in einer verdrehten, narzisstischen Sicht sah Sauron sich zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt bestimmt als so etwas an. Aus Morgoth's Ring habe ich dazu ein (etwas Längeres) Zitat gefunden, was das meiner Meinung nach auch untermauert. Zumindest, sofern man davon ausgeht, dass Sauron seinen Wunsch nach Ordnung als etwas Altruistisches verstanden hat. "The time of Melkor's greatest power, therefore, was in the physical beginnings of the World; a vast demiurgic lust for power and the achievement of his own will and designs, on a great scale. [...] Thus, as 'Morgoth', when Melkor was confronted by the existence of other inhabitants of Arda, with other wills and intelligences, he was enraged by the mere fact of their existence, and his only notion of dealing with them was by physical force, or the fear of it. [...] Hence his endeavour always to break wills and subordinate them to or absorb them into his own will and being, before destroying their bodies. This was sheer nihilism, and negation its one ultimate object: Morgoth would no doubt, if he had been victorious, have ultimately destroyed even his own 'creatures', such as the Orcs, when they had served his sole purpose in using them: the destruction of Elves and Men. [...] Melkor could do nothing with Arda, which was not from his own mind and was interwoven with the work and thoughts of others: even left alone he could only have gone raging on till all was levelled again into a formless chaos. [...] Sauron had never reached this stage of nihilistic madness. He did not object to the existence of the world, so long as he could do what he liked with it. He still had the relics of positive purposes, that descended from the good of the nature in which he began: it had been his virtue (and therefore also the cause of his fall, and of his relapse) that he loved order and coordination, and disliked all confusion and wasteful friction. (It was the apparent will and power of Melkor to effect his designs quickly and masterfully that had first attracted Sauron to him." (Notes on motives in the Silmarillion)