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There will always be evil, because of mannish nature, and dwarvish nature to a lesser extent. Even if all of the bad creatures were hunted out and destroyed, man would still be treacherous.
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I would agree to an extent, but the way I see it is that Melkor is the utter source of Evil in Middle Earth. Without Melkor I don’t think Evil would have entered. Without the treat of Morgoth All of the children of Iluvatar would not be so fearful of each other to begin with. The Peoples of Middle Earth would be more trusting and so I would say that it is Melkor who planted the Evil into the hearts of Men, Elves, or Dwarves.
The fear of treachery and the fear of foes will have made them untrusting of each other. And so as it says in Silm;
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The seeds of Melkor's hate were deeply imbedded in the world.
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(Or something likes that. Correct me if I misquoted)
Back to the subject, I think that there would be some Worms left after Smoug. Many have argued that the Fell beasts that the Názgul rode upon were dragons, but personally I think this may be dew to the poison of the film... but that’s not for here... The Dragons were an intelligent race, look at Glaurung, he was both a captain and a grate addition to Melkor's fours. So if any were left that weren’t sitting on a pile of gold somewhere, it is logical that if any servants of Sauron / Melkor would try and get them to fight for them. Wouldn't they?