Quote Originally Posted by Kyouhen View Post
I dunno, Feanor's example included swearing a blood oath against the god of evil. That could be considered a good act. He just went chaotic good is all.
Are you serious? The story of the Silmarils is explicitly a story about greed bringing about evil. Fëanor and his sons are evil in a multitude of ways, all precipitated by their greed and the terrible oath they swear. They murder, steal, rob, betray, threaten, and kidnap other - good - elves. The Kinslaying is one of the worst crimes in the Silmarillion - when the Teleri of Alqualondë refuse to give up their ships for Fëanor to pursue Morgoth, he leads his sons and followers into the city, slaying everyone who opposes them, and takes the ships by force.

They're hardly the only ones. Eöl, the Dark Elf (referring both to his evil nature, and the fact he's of the Avari, the elves who did not join the journey to Valinor), kidnapped Aredhel, forcing her to be his wife (i.e. raped her); their son, Maeglin, was twisted and selfish, and betrayed Gondolin to Morgoth for vengeance and jealousy.

Orcs also have nothing to do with evil elves; in the "orcs were elves" genesis, Morgoth captured elves and tortured and twisted their forms and spirits into orcs. Evil elves didn't just suddenly change into orcs.

In The Hobbit, the Silvan elves of Mirkwood and their elven-king are hardly very good, either; they're suspicious, greedy, and xenophobic. Certainly some of this can be explained by their circumstances, but they're still just as fallible and "Neutral" as humans.

(Randomly, dwarves weren't that Good either. Not only did some dwarves fight on the side of Sauron in the Second Age, they were often driven to evil by greed. Cf. the murder of Thingol over the Nauglamir.)