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Originally Posted by Boromir88
You can't have two Dark Lords can you? Well, one wanted to destroy everything, the other one wanted to dominate/control. Sauron was drawn to Morgoth's service because it was the best way to further his own plans. He probably figured can't beat him, it'll be better to play along and join him.
Maybe Sauron figured out, Morgoth was a nutcase who wanted to try to achieve the impossible...so Morgoth would end up pretty much electing the path to his own fall and Sauron would have free reign.
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Very likely– on the other hand, we know that Sauron's fatal flaw is that he can't imagine other people not wanting what he wants– I mean, the plot of LotR depends on this, e.g.:
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"For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it."
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– Gandalf in
The Council of Elrond.*
So, maybe it never occurred to him that anyone would want to destroy the world either? (This, of course, is assuming Morgoth had enough sanity to keep his "plan" to himself.) You could see it as an unfortunate side effect of being, as you say, practical.
*At least you know I didn't make
that one up.
