I disagree with your use of Boromir as an example of a "flat" evil character, Magician. Boromir was actually one of the few "grey" examples that Tolkien slipped into his works. You just have to read between the lines a bit more when his character is involved. Since when is wanting to defend your country and your people, evil? Since when is wanting to believe that you can still love and please your father, evil? If those things are considered evil, then I'd hate to see what you consider good. Yes, Boromir fell to the temptation of the One Ring, we all know that weakness. Apparently a lifetime of good deeds is not enough to save a man, although one bad deed is enough to condemn him forever.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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