Re: If Sauron and his armies had conquered Middle Earth, what would they have done with it?
Originally Posted by
Ngugi
The majority of them already belived he was a god and worshipped him.
Correct.
I don't think the final goal of Morgoth (and similarly for Sauron his servant) was to destroy everything, but to rule Arda or ME at least in the way he preferred, shaping it according to his own tastes. It might be that Sauron was more "mad destroyer" than his master, still I'm convinced that the final goal was to rule everything and everybody and be considered as a God.
Now that I'm thinking about this matter I have to admit it is quite complicate, we should also take into account what the Valar would have done if in the end Sauron had won the war for the complete dominion of ME (probably what they did with Morgoth when he was actually ruling ME at the time the Elves awoke, because the final goal for all the troubles of Valar was to create and maintain a world for the Sons of Illuvatar) or if Sauron had really tried again to do anything against Valinor (provided that he could find a way to somehow reach or affect it). Furthermore I honestly and personally doubt Sauron ever had a real chance to completely overrun his enemies, in the sense that at the very last the Valar never refused their help to preserve the Sons, nor they were completely inactive, as they sent Istari to contest his power, and in the end it was one of them who actually won over him (also consider that there are many references in the books to the fact that in some extention the Valar, Manwe in particular, had not forgotten ME, ie sending his belowed Eagle two times to help Gandalf.. or when Gandalf himself said to Frodo that he was somewhat "doomed" to find the Ring).
I might be a little OT, but I think it is difficult, if not impossible, to make any speculation on a fiction character if we do not take into consideration who is him in the fiction itself.
Flinn