From what I understand, Sauron was the Maia who served Melkor/Morgoth. As such (and this is pure speculation as I am only on Chapter Nine of the Silmarillion) he should have learned two things from Melkor:
1. Do not ever underestimate your enemy.
The Valar underestimated Melkor and Melkor understimated Ungoliant. They both almost died. As such, Sauron ought to have learned his lesson.
2. Pride is one's downfall.
Which to me goes hand in hand with number one.
If he had followed those two points, I'm sure he would have done much better. Not that we wanted him to do better. The pride of the evil ones are the blessing of the good guys.
Hopefully if I was Sauron I would have had an ickle bit of humility...
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I'm sorry it wasn't a unicorn. It would have been nice to have unicorns.
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