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That was certainly a theme of much of Tolkien’s writing. Many characters fell out a desire to do good, and many others were confronted with the choice to do evil in the service of good.

Nothing about what the person being interviewed said implies that the moral of the story is “you should go really really far into evil to do good.” I’d say the implication of that question is the opposite.



Here's a prediction: This show is all about current events and the answer is going to be "Yeah, a lot of evil, and we're still the good guys"




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