I sincerly don't believe
that Linoge could have killed them all if they stood againgst him. it seemed to take so much power and concentration just to manipulate one person, also he coulnd't make Billy kill his girlfriend, proving there are limits to his power! and they really did "trick themselves"
also (possibly contridictory) i don't at all see Linoge as a bad guy. he is merely a dying entity of some sort looking for a protoge (sp?) and he is willingly given one. so i also sincerly don't believe that he is the villian in this movie, the citizens of Little Tall are.
Where we're going we don't need..roads.