More than the fact that he crossed Orcs with Men was the fact that he had tried to make creatures of his own. That was Sauron's greatest sin, in the eyes of Gandalf. Only Iluvatar had the power to truly create. All that Sauron (and Morgoth) could do was twist, and mutilate, and destroy. Sauron may have thought he was creating, but he was only twisting and rending and mutilating.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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