The phenomenon of emotional ambivalence, stemming from the presence of two different evaluative perspectives, can account for such a possibility (see here).

正反感情并存的现 象——源于存在两种不同的评价观点——可以解释这样的一种可能性。

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Modernist ambiguity, or realist emotional ambivalence, is unknown to Tolkien the good people are very good, the bad people very bad, and though occasionally a character may be tossed between good and evil, like Gollum, it is self-interest, rather than conscience, that makes him tip back and forth.

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