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Re: The role of Fate in Middle Earth
Interesting post, Mith. So are you saying then that when Gandalf says, <blockquote>
Quote:<hr> 'I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it.'<hr></blockquote>...or Aragorn says,<blockquote>
Quote:<hr> `He is the Bearer, and the fate of the Burden is on him. I do not think that it is our part to drive him one way or the other. Nor do I think that we should succeed, if we tried. There are other powers at work far stronger.'<hr></blockquote>...that they are
not obliquely referring to Eru/Ilúvatar? What about Gandalf's (so-called <img src=wink.gif ALT="
"> ) "enhancement" and return? Doesn't that constitute direct intervention?
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