Imladris:
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Shelob
Balrog
I believe that these creatures associated themselves with Sauron, though they could be good if they wanted to.
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The interesting thing about Shelob (to me) has always been that she most emphatically did
not associate herself with Sauron at all. I am working away from my books *sob* but as I can recall, we hear that Shelob "cared not for towers or rings" and that she did not acknowledge or care about Sauron's claims to sovereignty (which makes her a lot like the good guys, now that I come to think of it).
They are both of them rather "independent" operators in that they don't take orders from Sauron or do his will, unlike the first group you have:
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The Black Riders
Gollum
The Mouth of Sauron
Sauron
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with, of course, the notable exception of Gollum, who not only doesn't do what Sauron wants, but (like Shelob, with whom he forms an alliance) works to thwart Sauron's plans (again, like the good guys).
So within this framework you're developing we actually have at least two differnt and opposed 'camps' within the monolithic Evil grouping with Sauron and his servants on the one side, and Gollum and Shelob on the other. To pick up on the idea of greed, each group is greedy, but for different things. Sauron for the power to mock and mar Middle-Earth, Gollum and Shelob to 'eat' Middle-Earth; Sauron wants to rule over M-E, Gollum and Shelob wish to consume it (?).
In this respect, Shelob and the Balrog are a lot like the way you describe this group of nasties:
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Old Man Willow
The Barrow Wights
The Watcher in the Water
I find these characters not to be evil. Just...unpleasant in general and creatures that cause delays (often deadly delays). The reason that the Fellowship was put in danger was because it cossed their paths. I believe that the Watcher in the Water could be compared to your local shark. Whether it was driven by the power of the Ring to attack Frodo I don't know. It could have been an unfortunately coincidence.
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Mithalwen, you make a very interesting point about choice and corruption, but there is a wrinkle there: Gollum was corrupted by the Ring, which is Sauron -- so, what corrupted Saruon? Himself? Some other evil power? (Morgoth?) In which case what corrupted that evil power? Where does this end? If there is a trickle-down kind of evil here, what is the source or well-spring of the corruption you see afflicting those who make bad choices?
The other possibility in your idea is that they are all 'equally' evil in that they all corrupted themselves by making bad choices -- I can go along with this, but then did they all make the same choice? If so, what is this choice and why is that choice evil? Or did they make different choices (and this is what I would think is the case -- see above), in which case are they following different roads to the same Evil, or are there different kinds or versions of Evil? (a bunch of different evils?)