About Free Will:
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Originally Posted by Raynor
Free will operates within certain limits:
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Originally Posted by Letter #153
Free Will is derivative, and is only operative within provided circumstances; but in order that it may exist, it is necessary that the Author should guarantee it, whatever betides : sc. when it is 'against His Will', as we say, at any rate as it appears on a finite view. He does not stop or make 'unreal' sinful acts and their consequences"
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It seems in the
Ainulindalë that the Author doesn't just guarantee it, he actually seems to author the acts of Free Will, or at least has already taken into account the fact that they are going to occur:
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Originally Posted by Ainulindalë
Then Ilúvatar spoke, and he said: 'Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Ilúvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined
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Rebel or Nameless Goody-goody - it seems the Author has already penned what will in the long run be happening.
Or did I misread this?