[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Morgoth just doesn't think that way. To negotiate and to honour one's agreements is to acknowledge that the other party has some value. Morgoth sees all others as tools, nothing more. Indeed, such is his contempt for humanity especially that he offers Húrin a captaincy of balrogs in The Lay of the Children of Húrin, even though scant pages ago, that warrior had been the Elves' most loyal follower. Besides, his orcs could always kill people for him, and he ruled them by fear, not rewards.