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06-24-2004, 01:52 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Blowing the froth off a couple in this quaint little pub in Michel Delving.
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Good Question, Shadow_Lady
Tolkien is just distilling evil from our real (and spiritual) world into his literary world. Why evil? Why sin? Why pride, envy, lust, fear? It is in the corrupted nature of fallen beings.
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