[Boromir88]

Let me get this straight: are you arguing that:
a) he was letting the war planning to others, because he wasn’t a military time? If anything, he acts in a totalitarian manner, trying to control everything and everywhere, so I don’t think this could be the case.

I never argued this stance...I said he wasn't the military commander type...meaning he wasn't the type to be at the front and lead armies. He was the type as Denethor observed to sit back and stay in his own walls.

b) he was trying to reach his goals through… what? Political means? I certainly disagree with that.

Again when did I say this?

Taking the front row isn’t a prerequisite of a militaristic point of view. Just like Melkor, he keeps his behind safe, fearing for his bodily form, but that in no way means hinders his war agenda.

I never said anything differently.

I disagree; those were the virtues he has in the beginning; in the end, as the Myths state, he went balistic.

I would like proof that Sauron had gone 'ballistic.' He still kept the very virtues of order and co-ordination. And he never reached Morgoth's stage of chaos nor the stage of nihilism:

"Sauron had never reached this stage of nihilistic madness. He did not object to the existence of the world, so long as he could do what he liked with it.~Morgoth's Ring

From what is that clear? If anything, he mishandled the parley with his enemies and displayed fear; worthy of contempt, and if you ask me, Sauron would have been aware of those shortcomings.

Actually the parley was false. How do we know the parley was false, because it was already a planned trap:

He [Mouth of Sauron] gave a great cry, and turned, leaped upon his steed, and with his company galloped madly back to the Cirith Gorgor. But as they went his soldiers blew their horns in signal long arranged; and even before they came to the gate Sauron sprang his trap.~Black Gate Opens

Why would you say that?

I gave 3 reasonable examples (Gollum, The Nazgul, and The Mouth of Sauron) that show the importance of names. Your name is your identity (example the Ents, their names are the stories of their life as Treebeard explains)...Names are extremely important, they identify who you are. The Nazgul were not named, as their wills were completely bound to Sauron's will...just as the Mouth of Sauron had forgotten his name, he doesn't have an identity, only except that he is under Sauron's dominion. Just like when Gollum's hope of redemption was in the fact that he had been able to remember his name...Smeagol. If one loses their name, they lose their identity, it's a sign that they don't know who they are and are completely under the dominion of someone else. (In this case Sauron).

I doubt that, he was a man, as you point out yourself, and therefore _very_ vulnerable to the ring – but the witch-king would bring the ring back to Sauron, as we know from Unfinished Tales, The Hunt for the Ring. Comparing the trustworthiness of these two doesn’t favor your candidate.

I would like to see how you doubt that? I have shown that the Mouth was under Sauron's will because he has forgotten his own name...Tolkien also compares him to a Ringwraith...and just because somebody is a man doesn't mean they are automatically corrupted and tempted by the Ring.

We can argue this only post-factum; I see no reason to infer that should the withc-king be live, matters would be the same.

Again all this is, is inferring, where I have shown a quote showing that The Mouth of Sauron was going to rule over Orthanc.

As stated before, this is not a job he seems to be up to.

Why not? Because he fled from Gandalf? So what, a lot of people fled from Gandalf...The Witch-King fled from Gandalf, the Witch-King fled from Glorfindel, I would flee from Gandalf. If anything the Nazgul proved to be more incompetant at doing their duty than The Mouth of Sauron.

In my opinion, that is just speculation.

I would like to say why you think it is simply speculation? Both the WK and the Mouth had seperate duties...it is like the Sauron-Gothmog relationship. Gothmog led Morgoth's armies, and Sauron acted more like an administrator and was second to Morgoth. Typically, the military leader, does just that he leads the military, but doesn't serve for administrative purposes. Now there are occasions where of course one person can be in charge of both the military and government duties...Though in this system we had the Witch-King who led the military and The Mouth who took care of administrative duties in Barad-dur, and of course both were under Sauron's jurisdiction as he ruled over both of them.