Inherent Evil

[purplefluffychainsaw]

I find it hard to beleive that orcs are wholy evil becuase, although tortured and mutated beyond reconition, they were still created from the elves. And what creature with such orgin could truly be evil? This also qualifies for any further mutation of the orcs, such as uruk-hai. The trolls I do not beleive to be evil becuase to me they are not a race of setimate creatures, such as humans,elves or even orcs, so they cannot have morals such as good and evil, so how can they be put under one of these headings? Dragons I find hard to place. There is little detail to suport them as not wholy evil except for they are to qualified as Kelvar (Animals) I do not know if this is how Tolkien qualified them, but it is how I do. So this works with most of the races which are considered evil except for Balrogs. Balrogs are maiar. But then their whole race is not evil, becuase you have all the maiar that still work for Eru and his ways. This works for Sauron and Melkor too.

But also, you cannot have such a race as is wholy good. I take a quote from a disney film here (To my shame) which I find so true:

You find one in every family, sire

This is true. From the elves you have Feanor, who was blinded by his greed. Smeagol, from the Hobbits was too blinded by his desire. Humans there are many exaples. I shall take Boromir, for even though he died for the causes of good he still had greed in him. I could go until Eru. What fault does he have? I cannot say. Perhaps he loved his creation a bit too much? Tolkien does not specify. Maybe he wanted Eru to be perfect, like his God.

And I'll shut up now, most of that will be random... Sorry!