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One thing I love about The Neverending Story is there's no moral relativism. Atreyu doesn't try to sympathize with Gmork, he knows he's pure evil and has to be destroyed.
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Thatā€™s a gross oversimplification of the evils in Lord of the Rings. Tolkien explained quite well how the evils came to be. At no point were the orcs just born evil because they ā€œconveniently belong to an entire race of pure evil beingsā€; thereā€™s a lot of event chronicling and thought put into why and hoe a ā€œrace of pure evil beingsā€ could come into existence.

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Yeah, I donā€™t think you understand either the point of that story or how convenience works. By your logic, I could argue that any point in a story is ā€œconvenientā€. The reason itā€™s NOT simply ā€œconvenient storytellingā€ is that he, again, goes to great lengths to explain how and why they are now evil. If it was just ā€œconvenient storytellingā€, he wouldnā€™t have touched on their development into evil beings either at all or in anything more than passing. Instead, there are a ton of notes and stories he wrote that seek to explain why they are now evil.

Your point isnā€™t a terrible one; you just picked an absolutely horrendous example that you clearly know nothing more than cursory information about.

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