Não é especificamente afirmado, mas Sauron tem tudo a ver ódio , não amor. Seu único desejo é alcançar algo como "estamparia de botas em um rosto humano - para sempre". Esta passagem de RotK dá uma ideia de como os servos de Sauron se sentem em relação uns aos outros, seus líderes e todos os outros na Terra Média:
SDA, Livro VI, cap. 2 Terra da Sombra :
‘I’ll give your name and number to the Nazgûl,’ said the soldier lowering his voice to a hiss. ‘One of them‘s in charge at the Tower now.’
The other halted, and his voice was full of fear and rage. ‘You cursed preaching sneakthief!’ he yelled. ‘You can’t do your job, and you can’t even stick by your own folk. Go to your filthy Shriekers, and may they freeze the flesh off you! If the enemy doesn’t get them first. They’ve done in Number One, I’ve heard, and I hope it’s true!’ The big orc, spear in hand, leapt after him. But the tracker, springing behind a stone, put an arrow in his eye as he ran up, and he fell with a crash. The other ran off across the valley and disappeared.
For a while the hobbits sat in silence. At length Sam stirred. ‘Well, I call that neat as neat,’ he said. ‘If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.’
‘Quietly, Sam,’ Frodo whispered. ‘There may be others about. We have evidently had a very narrow escape, and the hunt was hotter on our tracks than we guessed. But that is the spirit of Mordor, Sam; and it has spread to every corner of it. Orcs have always behaved like that, or so all tales say, when they are on their own. But you can’t get much hope out of it. They hate us far more, altogether and all the time. If those two had seen us, they would have dropped all their quarrel until we were dead.’
É fácil imaginar Sauron gostando de deixar os Espectros do Anel apenas o livre-arbítrio para odiá-lo, mesmo quando eles são forçados a servi-lo.