ouch malin, please don't take me literally...what i meant really was the death (of sorts) of sauron, the figurehead of evil, not the death of all evil. so sorry, i do tend to abbreviate and english is really not my first language.
but more on your point about small struggles. that's it really, none of the isolated smaller or petty wars in lotr really made a difference in the long-term, that is, until they were concerted into a much more bigger, unified struggle with a universal purpose. this is a recurring theme in tolkien's works, even in the silm, e.g. the war of wrath, where even the valar participated, shish!
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pity this busy monster,manunkind, not / -progress is a comfortable disease;/ your victim (death and life safely beyond) / plays with the bigness of his littleness
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