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Originally posted by rextorres:
"Sauron's army was the one that included every species and race on Middle Earth, including all the despised colors of humanity, and all the lower classes.

Hmm. Did they all leave their homes and march to war thinking, "Oh, goody, let's go serve an evil Dark Lord"?

Or might they instead have thought they were the "good guys," with a justifiable grievance worth fighting for, rebelling against an ancient, rigid, pyramid-shaped, feudal hierarchy topped by invader-alien elfs and their Numenorean-colonialist human lackeys?"

Never thought of TLOR this way.

There's one error -- there were NEVER Elves in Saurons' army; Orcs were a failed attempt to make evil elves. And I'm not at all certain in regards to Dwarves.

However, as for Men ... Men are traditionally a neutral race in the LOTR mythos; there are good men, there are bad men, and there are all the countless shades of grey in between.

Those who marched in Sauron's army did so for greed, power lust, and sometimes the sheer joy of killing.

But there were NEVER Elves in Sauron's armies, in EITHER War of the Ring (the second of which is yet to come, film-wise ... ... )