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Originally Posted by rorschach
Were the Danes 'evil'?
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We aren't evil. It's just that our intentions at the time got misunderstood. We wanted to make friends, but it's sometimes difficult to communicate over cultural barriers.
Barring that Sauron is nothing like Hitler. Hitlers power was in INSPIRATION of people - he took over a non-evil people - Germany had not been especially evil in WWII - and turned them evil. Sauron does that a bit - but most of his followers are turned looong ago. Hitler would more be like a King of Rohan or Gondor that turned the whole country to the side of Sauron - which would have been an interesting episode. Hitler's armies followd him willingly: Sauron has to threaten many of them.
Hitler was a terrible military planner - the German generals refereed to him as "the madman in Nürnberg - while Sauron is more like Stalin, a master tactician and strategist. Hitler also sucked at the intelligence bit of the war, while this is maybe Sauron's strongest side.
The soldiers of Mordor and Nazi Germany are very different as well. Germany's were well disciplined, bordering to the robotic. Sauron's are undisciplined, often fighting among themselves. Sauron doesnt seem to have anything like the SS, a large completely loyal elite corps. He has a large unruly bunch and then some 20 large generals to keep them in check.
Hitler didnt fight for himself as a person - but for the aryan race. Sauron fights for himself alone.
Evil comes in many forms...