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[Tolkien] What is Sauron's end goal, anyway?

I've heard a lot that he's obsessed with order and control. Say he gets the ring back and completes himself once more and uses that power to find the rest of the ring bearers, bring them, and in the darkness bind them, and then his army spreads out and conquers all the lands of Middle Earth. What does he do then? Is there some Great Work he seeks to accomplish?
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>...it had been [Sauron's] virtue (and therefore also the cause of his fall, and of his relapse) that he loved order and coordination, and disliked all confusion and wasteful friction. ...though the only real good in, or rational motive for, all this ordering and planning and organization was the good of all inhabitants of Arda (even admitting Sauron's right to be their supreme lord), his 'plans', the idea coming from his own isolated mind, became the sole object of his will, and an end, the End, in itself.*
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>\* [footnote to the text] But his capability of corrupting other minds, and even engaging their service, was a residue from the fact that his original desire for 'order' had really envisaged the good estate (especially physical well-being) of his Subjects'.

So no. No great work. No real "master plan" to speak of. Sauron became so fixated on the planning and organization that the plan itself became the goal, rather than merely the means to achieve some larger end goal.