Nogrod, perhaps it would interest you to know that Tolkien didn't believe in absolute evil:
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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 at any rate any 'rational being' is wholly evil.~Letter 183
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And critics are always complaining that Tolkien was such a conservative.
Edit: aha I found it...here's an older thread that might interest you,
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Nogrod.
Absolutely Evil