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Maybe he's forgotten everything (except that name) before he came to Middle Earth.
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I'm not sure "forgotten" is the word I'd use to describe it. "Dimmed" or "veiled" I think describes it more accurately.
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It seems to me that it's the other way around
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There is some merit in what you are saying, but Sauron and the Balrog had undergone *profound* changes since the time that they had sung the Music.
I think it would be similar to the way that Manwe failed to recognize Melkor when the Valar defeated him in the War of the Powers.