Could you, if you were Frodo the hobbit, raise the problem of evil to Tolkien? Frodo might say, and this is a traditional postulation, Tolkien is either bad at writing, or evil. Or option three, he doesn´t exist. Does that argument hold water? Can Frodo look at his reality and say, of the author, "there either isn´t one, or he sucks, or he's really evil?"
That´s what the philosophers give us. But we look at Frodo and we can say, "You idiot...the evil is here to be beaten! It´s here to be overcome! It's here to be broken - break it! Go throw the ring in the volcano! Don't sit there and look at it and say, ´there is no Tolkien, because if there was, how could such an evil exist?"'
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