This is not about death, but does this  
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		| but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else | 
	
   mean that all creatures other than men are subject to fate?  If it does mena this, what about free-will? (yes, I know it's an age-old question, but ME is a new place to explore the arguments!)