God is wholly good, there is no evil within Him. Evil comes into the universe [ or Middle-Earth] solely through and abuse or misuse of free will.
The opposite saying that God is the source of Evil [if only indirectly] is a form of Dualism, that JRRT most certainly did not ascribe to. When beings are given freewill, they become responsible for their actions, not God.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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