Sauron is one of the world's greatest villains ... and to be called Lord, and to be a master over other wills" (The Silmarillion). Morgoth's methods were Machiavellian, to say the least.

"The Silmarillion" describes him at this point, saying, "Sauron was become now a sorcerer of dreadful power, master of shadows and of phantoms, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, misshaping what ...