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I understand your point, davem. So this means there's a flaw, a crack in this otherwise brilliantly crafted structure that is Tolkien's world.
So if I understand correctly so far - there are three categories of 'monsters':
- the 'fairy story' beasts, for whom there is no good and evil, only the wild nature's ways - like Old man willow.
- those who have chosen evil (they could have chosen to be good only they didn't), like Bill Ferny, Smeagol
- and that indistinct category that was - shall we say - predisposed to be evil? - ; born in a society where evil is the accepted norm, but still, according to Tolkien's moral sense, could have still chosen to be good. The logic being the same In the same way that good guys, with every opportunity to be good, turn bad, like Saruman. Only of course, it's much easier to fall than to rise.
Please let me know if I don't understand correctly so far.
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