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Good and Evil  Good and Evil. Sadly, these are not terms one
hears much of outside fantasy worlds today. The battle between
them, however, consumes the plot of every good fantasy tale ever
written, and make no mistake: we are speaking of Good with a
capital 'G' and Evil with a very capital 'E.'  There is no room
for moral interpretation in Tolkien. He had probably never heard
anybody say, "Well, I can't force my morality on others." Why do
people flock to the works of Tolkien, of George Lucas, and the
like, in droves? Precisely because when you see a Black Rider
standing in your path, you don't stop to debate the merits of
his belief system against your own. You draw your sword. People,
no matter how much they may consciously deny it, want and indeed
need a conscience; it is the very agelessness of the battle that
makes fantasy, and especially the incomparable works of Tolkien,
so popul