[The Sixth Wizard]

Originally Posted by Farael

Now, we have two different issues in here. Did Eru mean to create creatures that would be hard to corrupt? Probably. Were the hobbits "the chosen people"? Absolutely not. Now, there's a difference between both questions and not a slight one.

It is logical to think that Eru knew that the Middle Earth would need creatures of strong will, even if coming along with weaker bodies (or at least, not as suitable for battle). But we see that there is a myriad of creatures, the hobbits not necesarily being the most uncorruptible. Therefore, even if Bilbo was meant to find the ring and Frodo to carry it, there is no evidence pointing at the hobbits being the "chosen ones". Keep in mind that Morsul did not say that Bilbo and Frodo were brought to life and found the ring thanks to Eru's will (which I would have agreed with) but that his concept was that the Hobbits (all of them) were a people chosen by Eru to become the saviours of the Middle Earth.

And as Saucerpan man said, Bilbo and Frodo were exceptional hobbits, not at all your average sacoville-baggins folks

I think that hobbits were the chosen people. They do not appear any time before the Third Age, and seem to be for no purpose whatsoever. Yet Frodo still failed in destroying the Ring at the end of the book. If Iluvatar really wanted a hardy race, (and if Aule was capable of creating the Dwarves) then shouldn't he have made something a bit better?