One becomes evil when they give into certain temptations that corrupts and warps the mind. This corrupt way of thinking makes it alright in the person’s head to cause destruction and turmoil to get the things they desire such as power. Many times though its not only power that defects the mind, evil can be acquired through another person.

“A major independent enemy among evil forces is the magician Saruman. The Valar sent him along with other Istari (or Wizards) to check the growing power of Sauron in Middle

-earth. And so Saruman the White started fighting against the Dark Lord. For this purpose, he has long studied the arts of the enemy himself, which reveals a fatal mistake. As a matter of fact, the knowledge that the wizard acquires gradually inflames his pride to the point that he forsakes the good cause that he was originally defending “(Degallier, 12).

It seems that even good people have evil in them, what makes them strong or not is the ability to block out those feelings and do what is right. Sauron and Saruman were not able to keep their evil inside of them. “They are tyrants who seek to dominate everything and everyone; their urge is power, power to rule others” (Degallier, 5) “The sin of pride is associated with the concept of power, for pride is itself a corruption of power” (Degallier, 4) Saruman and Sauron believe they are unstoppable and this just adds to the fire, their pride will make them go as far as destroying everyone to control everything.

At the end of most wars there are some things to be gained and things to be learned. Civilization could not go on perhaps if they didn’t learn from their mistakes. At the end Frodo has the opportunity to kill Saruman but does not like the idea of killing. Frodo says “I will not have Saruman slain. It is useless to meet revenge with revenge, it will heal nothing” (p 995). Frodo has learned that you cant stop destruction with destruction, Frodo stopped it by not giving into his hate. “…What the Hobbit has learnt [sic] is that the real enemy is within himself – he comes to understand better the character of evil. Suffering and experience gave him more insight.” (Degallier, 15) Since the hobbit has learned from his adventures he is that much more equipped to handle something of this magnitude the next time it comes around. Good triumphs over evil because they learn from each mistake, and each battle, so that the next time evil strikes, they are a bit more prepared. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” (Edmund Burke).

Though evil may seem to be very powerful it actually starts the demise of the persons being evil. This is because evil persons are generally mean and nasty, even with each other. “The slaves of the dark lord, the orcs, are shown always angry and disagreeing with each other. Evil is ultimately self destructive” (Degallier, 5). In the novel they actually started killing one a

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