Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25981649-20171114144756/@comment-32918765-20171118153336

Sir Lazuli wrote:

WoodenBox wrote: Tbh, I hate the whole good vs evil thing. I find there are flaws and good things with almost every side, group, or civilisation, both real and fantasy. The Lord of the Rings is nothing if you take away good versus evil. Yes, nobody is perfect and everybody has flaws, and there is some good in flawed people (ex. Gollum / Sméagol), but everything is meaningless if there’s no good or evil. The reason the conflicts in The Lord of the Rings resonate is because one side, though very much flawed, stands for all the good and beautiful things in the world, and freedom, while the other fights for destruction, defilement, torment, power, and evil. If you take that away what is the point?

LOTR is actually one of the only places where I can construct few or none excuses for the evil side.