Was Eru a Sadist?

[Olorin_TLA]

This all boils down to: "assuming there's a Supreme Being in this existence, are THEY a sadist?" because that's what Eru is.

So devout religiopus people would be likely to say no. , myself, would say yes. The reason why Tolkien would say no, and others, is that "God works in mysterious ways" etc, etc. Basically, if a mortal were to act like Eru, we'd hope Saruon ate them. But who can fathom Go, Tolkein might well say. And you'd be free to disagree.