Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Tolkien talks of the elves being embalmers. Galadriel used Nenya to effectively stop, or hold back change & growth in Lorien, to change living nature into an embalmed work of art, against the will of Eru. If she had taken the one, she would have done that to the whole of ME. Tolkien says the elves had 'flirted with Sauron', or in Christian terms, 'dabbled in Satanism'. There is a 'dark side' to the Elves, pride, desire to be dominant, to be the superior caste in ME. The Elves are complex beings. There are few races, or individuals in ME who are entirely 'good'.
[ June 25, 2003: Message edited by: davem ]
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