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Originally Posted by davem
Also, I begin to wonder how very different Sauron (mis)using the Secret Fire at the Heart of the Earth would be from Feanor (mis)using the Holy Light (if there's a difference between the two) of the Trees in his creation of the (highly 'addictive') Silmarils....
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IMO-- very different. The Silmarilli started out, and remained, works of art, not tools of domination. They were objects of beauty, sub-creative art. The fact that continents were sunk over them does not make them less beautiful and it does not make them evil.
The Ring, on the other hand, had no other purpose but evil from its creation.