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re: I'll ask this on this board: LOTR, Saruman
Posted on 9/19/23 at 11:39 am to boxcarbarney
Posted on 9/19/23 at 11:39 am to boxcarbarney
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If true, why did they not just get rid of Sauron? I know nothing about the lore of Lord of the Rings other than what the movies portrayed.
It's hard to read The Silmarillion and not see Biblical correlations. I think it's like God giving men free will to make their own decisions, not predestination. He's not micro managing but does provide blessing. Same thing happens in real life, people as why is God letting all these bad things happen. Whether someone believes that is the case in life or not is kind of irrelevant because that was Tolkiens belief. So Eru isn't a micro manager and let's free will take place.
I would say similiar to God providing blessing to help his will take place/fulfill prophecy, Eru did the same thing. Gandalf at one point told Frodo:
"Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all"
I had to google that quote, I'm not that big of a nerd
Posted on 9/19/23 at 4:02 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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I had to google that quote, I'm not that big of a nerd
no doubt... a real Tolkien nerd would have totally owned it with pride...
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:27 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Didn’t Galdalf pretty much say that to Bilbo at the end of the third Hobbit movie?
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