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Let's look at Frodo... his Quest was inherently beyond his strength. He was set with an impossible task, one he would be forced to fail at (if you can call it failing. But anyway...). And it's pretty explicit that Frodo was meant to bear the Ring, that it was appointed to him - the "by Eru" is implied
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But Eru couldn't MAKE Frodo do anything. Hobbits are basically a sub-spicies of Men, and so immune to destiny. frodo and sam got themselves to mordor (unless Legolas played a bigger part then I'm aware of) and Gollum fell off due to his bad luck and idiocy. UNLESS, fate is decided by the Valar or fate is just whats set down at the start and Eru can actually influence everything, but chose to counterract only evil Ainur (similar to the the Valars policy) due to the "unfair advantage".
I, prefer to believe the former for the same reasons that I dislike the idea of fate, I like to believe that one really does his own work, and really averted failure and dislike the idea of being controlled, even by a perfect being (what fate is).
throw some talk around