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Eru being the creator here and I think the representation of absolute good...I mean Tolkien doesn't say there isn't an absolute good? So, if Eru is the absolute good and he is the creator of everything, can he create something absolutely evil? Can he create an equal and opposite force?
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I believe this is partially why Tolkien did not think there could be absolute evil.
Judging from some of Morgoth's behavior, I don't think it would be too much to say that Tolkien associated evil in many respects with nullity. Morgoth just destroys and ruins. In that light, Tolkien's comment about evil=0 makes perfect sense. Something absolutely evil would destroy itself because that would be the ultimate conclusion of its own evil, the necessary end point of that line of thought and action. Sauron is never associated with that sort of thinking, and even Morgoth was only vaguely.