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Originally Posted by davem
But in a mythological setting evil must have a manifest form, & that form must be the ultimate archetypal form that evil can possibly take. It must, in other words, show evil in its most extreme form.
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Well, evil has a manifest form in all Ea, since it was corrupted. Melkor himself was not wholly evil, since Tolkien argued this would be a zero. Also, for every exponent of evil in any mythology, I believe that he could be conceived as more evil/powerful than he actually is depicted; even in this fantasy Universe, it seems that Sauron is the closest representation of evil, not Melkor:
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Originally Posted by Letter #183
In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. I do not think that at any rate any 'rational being' is wholly evil. Satan fell. In my myth Morgoth fell before Creation of the physical world. In my story Sauron represents as near an approach to the wholly evil will as is possible.
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I hope I am coherent, a cup of wine seems to take its toll
