Sauron's loyalty after the First Age

[Eäralda Halatiriva]

Originally Posted by Zigûr

I think this is the issue. Evidently Sauron admired Morgoth at first, before either of them had wholly fallen into evil, but it would seem to me that as both of them descended into darkness Sauron would have become incapable of this kind of positivity. Professor Tolkien certainly casts doubt upon the "shadow of good" in Sauron's nature by the time of the downfall of Númenor. He "profited by this darkened shadow of good and services of ‘worshippers’" - it had become part of his nature to twist anything, even apparent acts of humility, to his own gain.

why does "down" tend to connote (theological) Evil, while "up" tend to connote (theological) Good in this Legendarium?

we discover in the Valaquenta that the turning of (conceptual) Darkness to Theological Evil is one of the most loathsome deeds of that Being who is known in the Age of the Lamps by the term Melkor (in Noldoran texts) - that there were times when Darkness had not yet been corrupted with Melkor's Malice and been made Bearer of Fear and Quencher of Lights... that In the beginning, Irmo, Lord of Dreams, used the Embrace of the Soothing Darkness to convey his Visions.....

now, why is that, would you say? does this tell us anything about the use of what you might call an iconic Language, that has its most engaging effects when there is a community of minds that share an interpretive horizon, which is to say have been enculturated with a similar perceptual "toolkit"?