Det är inte specifikt sagt, men Sauron handlar om hat, , inte kärlek. Hans enda önskan är att nå något som Orwells "bootstämpling på ett mänskligt ansikte - för alltid". Denna passage från RotK ger en uppfattning om hur Saurons tjänare känner sig om varandra, deras ledare och alla andra i Middle Earth:
LOTR, bok VI, Ch. 2 Skuggans land :
‘I’ll give your name and number to the Nazgûl,’ said the soldier lowering his voice to a hiss. ‘One of them‘s in charge at the Tower now.’
The other halted, and his voice was full of fear and rage. ‘You cursed preaching sneakthief!’ he yelled. ‘You can’t do your job, and you can’t even stick by your own folk. Go to your filthy Shriekers, and may they freeze the flesh off you! If the enemy doesn’t get them first. They’ve done in Number One, I’ve heard, and I hope it’s true!’ The big orc, spear in hand, leapt after him. But the tracker, springing behind a stone, put an arrow in his eye as he ran up, and he fell with a crash. The other ran off across the valley and disappeared.
For a while the hobbits sat in silence. At length Sam stirred. ‘Well, I call that neat as neat,’ he said. ‘If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.’
‘Quietly, Sam,’ Frodo whispered. ‘There may be others about. We have evidently had a very narrow escape, and the hunt was hotter on our tracks than we guessed. But that is the spirit of Mordor, Sam; and it has spread to every corner of it. Orcs have always behaved like that, or so all tales say, when they are on their own. But you can’t get much hope out of it. They hate us far more, altogether and all the time. If those two had seen us, they would have dropped all their quarrel until we were dead.’
Det är lätt att föreställa sig att Sauron njuter av att lämna Ring-Wraiths bara tillräckligt med fri vilja att hata honom även när de är tvungna att tjäna honom.