lord of the rings pontification
part of the problem with the original series *is* how black and white everything is. that's explicitly how tolkien wrote it bc it wasn't about a nuanced story it was about building a world for his language using his historical framework of world war 2
you know, the war where the allies were explicitly "good" and the axis were explicitly "evil", a framework that he worked within
the shadows of war devs are silly as heck thinking this justifies shelob in a dress
lord of the rings pontification
@vahnj Tolkien's on record as grumping that he was writing about WWI, but he was still writing during WWII - and he's still coming from being devoutly Catholic. I *do* think JRRT includes good and evil which isn't really related to the main conflict (like Shelob) because he wants to point out that's a thing which happens.
But uh having read about it I think Tolkien's *anything* is secondary to the devs desperately trying for villains who haven't been done before.
