Death and entropy are more fundamental than evil - JRR Tolkien agrees

Over at my Notion Club Papers blog; I discuss how Tolkien's great poem "Where now the horse and the rider" was explained by the author as being about the ultimate poignancy of the transience and oblivion of all that is Good in this mortal life; more than it is a lament for the wickedness of Men and the harshness of this world. 

In my jargon; JRRT seems to agree that The Fundamental Problem which is solved, for those who choose it, by the salvation of Jesus Christ; is death, rather than evil.