The poll is made at
Nilpaurion Felagund’s bidding, who, evidently, found the debate of
davem and yours truly about the subject interesting and requested study of general opinion.
The guidelines:
Quote:
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Therefore [Eru] willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; 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; and of their operation everything should be, in form and deed, completed, and the world fulfilled unto the last and smallest.
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Reference:
Evil Things (page 2 and onward)
That Good Night – Gift or Punishment?
The Halls of Mandos and Elvish ‘Free Will’
The Role of Fate In Middle Earth
The Treason of Isengard: Eru’s Plan?
My own (i.e. HerenIstarion’s) opinion:
Treason of Isengard, post #16
Evil Things, post #90
Good Night, post #8
Evil Things, post #92
Halls of Mandos and Elvish ‘Free Will’, post #18
Multiple choices are allowed