You are right when you write that Tolkien disliked allegories, and I only meant it as a theory if Tolkien drwaed any comparison between Eru and God.
But you write, how can I know that God is good?
I cannot; That is the whole concept of belief.
I belive in it, because I have seen more evidence suggesting it than the opposite; But I cannot be sure until i die.
Your next statement is: How can Melkor be seduced if he is not at some point evil/dark from the beginning?
Again, we are at the point of belief and not fact. And although I know that Tolkien wanted to keep his books free from christian allegories, I still think that he thought upon Eru as a being of good, simply because that was the most obvious for Tolkien.
My arguments are not the best, but it is hard to come up with something better since we ae discussing something that is hypothetical and not facts.
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