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I know its a popular criticism/comment but honestly the Demons never really came off to me as amoral. They're very moral, more moral than (some of) the Witches, its just a premodern, sort of chivalric pre-Christian morality. Honestly I went into reading The Worm Ouroboros expecting them to act like the Achaeans during the Iliad but they come off as being in the defensive from Witch incursion, who unlike the Demons invade all their neighboring kingdoms to conquer the entire world and have historically committed for as long as the Gorices have been in power. Even when they turn the tides on the Witches they regularly act merciful towards their enemies like Gro and Laxus and go as for as to offer Gorice XII peace so long as he handed over Corinius and Corsus (a demand he'd never accept but a demand nonetheless). I'd argue too that they do care about their subjects at least a bit, as they seem to have a personal vendetta towards Corsus and Corinius after they rape and pillage Demonland, but I could also see their offense more as a slight towards their honor than a killing of innocents. Anyway, I guess my whole point falls apart when they decide to bring Carce back in the end to fight again, but I still think coping and sneeding over Medieval Heroic Figures acting like Medieval Heroic Figures is a bit silly, especially for a scholar like Tolkein who would've habitually read the same kind of epic literature that Eddison was taking from