fair points and which raise various interesting questions which have been aired if not answered in other threads if I remember rightly..... Gandalf (who of course maybe in a better position to judge as a Maia.. implies the intention of a higher power ... "Bilbo was meant to find teh ring but not by it's maker" - andI quite agree that while Bilbo yearned for adventure, Frodo seems to have a sense of destiny
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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