The Understanding of Evil in British Romanticism: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ring “a Running Ambivalence”

J. R. Tolkien is admitted as the father of modern fantasy literature. What often overlooked about him that he was a great intellectual, hoping to find an answer issues his time, at least in field which very good: Tolkien`s attitude Evil consists two parts terms Ring. The first traditional Augustinian, later Boethian view. According this view, evil itself nothing. It absence good. So it internal. sin and weakness men are major cause evil. In Ring, desire Men for Power leads important things lust ambition. second ambiguous even contradictory vision Manichean. From perspective, equal external force equally powerful has also its own will.