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Gruesome Spectre
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A short answer seems to me to be that the use of substances such as gunpowder and explosives have, in Tolkien's Arda, a connotation with evil.
When the reader is first told of goblins in Bilbo's tale: Quote:
And in LOTR Aragorn has a singular word for Saruman's use of explosives: Quote:
"Devilry' I would equate with Morgoth or Sauron in that context. Basically, it appears that even the research of such warfare methods is frowned upon by the "good" in Middle-earth, and those who delve into those matters are either evil or heading that way.
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