Ulmo's Wave, you said it yourself. Sauron could have easily persuaded Smaug to "follow," or rather, "work with" him. He was silver-tongued to persuade Elves to work with him, do you honestly think that it would be all that hard to persuade a Dragon to help you plunder, pillage, and cause murder and mayhem?
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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