The Valar did just enough, I believe. If they had done more Sauron might have caught on to something. And Iluvatar wasn't exactly twiddling his thumbs either, he just gave the right nudge to fit everything in place. "Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker..."
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Do you really want to know / Or are you a little scared,
Afraid that God is not exactly what you'd have Him be?
--OC Supertones, "Wilderness"
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter." -- Max Beerbohm
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