Thread:The Second Age Server/@comment-27146469-20161210143736/@comment-29095449-20161210191406

People speculated it, but it was never confirmed. Even Tolkien once expressed that the reason Sauron didn't control mightier beings like balrogs, dragons, great spiders and so on (all created by Melkor) was because they were powerful enough to not be submitted by his leadership. They were servants of Morgoth, but now that he was gone they would serve noone but themselves. The only times you would hear of mightier beings under Sauron's banners would be when he had made deals with them. But in the end, they were too powerful for Sauron to destroy (after all, the majority of them were former Maias themselves).

So that being said, of course you - as a dragon - can make deals with orcs. But if you want to stay as close to the lore of dragons as possible, you would need to gain something from it. Remember, dragons were very powerful beings, mainly living for themselves, so working with other beings would have to gain you something you wouldn't be able to gain otherwise.