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>If a character goes on 60 episodes of journeying, I expect for them to learn something
True enough. Im glad this happens to other characters who aren't so written in stone for the overall theme of the moral dualistic showdown to work. My favorite is picrel, she deserves a multipage essay written. Great character arc.
>tolkien has been relevant for 80 years because of characters and themes, many of them of course dealing with ethics
You brought up his 'eucatastrophe', not me. His ethics are barebones even when compared to Monster, cant really work around that. And thats just fine. He shines in other areas and nobody can work around that either.
>How do we know this?
Its a sequel novel, its been fantranslated but its hard to get. I never read it, i did read some discussions on it back in the day.

I feel like we can pretty much agree to disagree, i dont feel like i have much to add. Our outlooks seem to differ, as i see all the characters as symbolical representations of ideals and the character conflicts being about philosophical dilemmas whereas you look on the story in a very literal sense.