That's pretty much the way I see it also Keeper, yet there is very little textual evidence to support it. Personally I think Tolkien did not put much detail into the power and rank of monster's and people so that the reader can make his/her own vision of Middle Earth in their mind.
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"I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams, and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world."
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Peter S. Beagle
I love that quote and think it is very handy to keep in mind when reading Tolkien.
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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