Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-25939116-20170811052629/@comment-25939116-20170811072040

"To them Sauron was both king and god; and they feared him exceedingly, for he surrounded his abode with fire. "

They knew Sauron was evil. I didn't say in the poem that they percieved themselves as being evil, but they feared Sauron and they helped him so they wouldn't get destroyed themselves. So, I still think the poem makes sense, for they joined not the evil, but the evil's armies.