Of Eru, Orcs and Evil

[Bill Ferny]

If Tolkien consciously in the revision incorporated his own Christian beliefs, it would be impossible to conceive of Eru as creating evil. Such a supreme being would be foreign to Tolkien’s faith.

Doug and everybody else currently involved in those other threads,

I just can't seem to escape this whole thing! I'm starting to have dreams at night about the nature of good and evil, freewill, original sin, the yin/yang, and whether or not the light created by the light bulb in my reading lamp is necessarily intrinsically good, or merely an accident with no ontological reality independent of sense perception. Make it stop!