Tolkien and the Monsters

[The Saucepan Man]

My topic is what started this, and I have begun it all, but please try to move back to the issue of the monsters in LotR, and how they help us to think about the nature of evil in the book.

*Puts hand in the air* Sir! Sir! Please Sir! Isn't that what we are doing? Considering what the portrayal of the likes of Orcs and Ringwraiths tells us about the nature of evil in Middle-earth? if you take my meaning, sir.

Saucie, will you please stop making that noise with your armpit? It's disgusting.

Terribly sorry, sir. But these here pans can get awful uncomfortable, and that's a fact.

*Looks about for Mistress Bêthberry to enter and commence a lecture on the proper term of address for a thread-starter on a forum that is devoted to a book which is, at the same time, both Edwardian and Mediaeval in style.*