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Old 11-30-2005, 08:48 PM   #9
The Saucepan Man
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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
Actually so too do the dwarves have a resistance to a desire for power. And they're little people too.
They were resistant to domination, but they had a weakness for gold and the like and were therefore potentially corruptible.

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Originally Posted by Farael
Morsul did not say that Bilbo and Frodo were brought to life and found the ring thanks to Eru's will (which I would have agreed with) ...
Yet, without Hobbits, there would be no Bilbo or Frodo ...

"Chosen people" may be an inappropriate term, but I really don't think that Morsul's theory, or at least aspects of it, should simply be dismissed out of hand.
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