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Old 06-30-2008, 11:39 AM   #117
skip spence
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skip spence is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.skip spence is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.
I'm repeating myself...

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Originally Posted by Gwathagor View Post
Consider the characters on their own level, and you will see that WITHIN THEIR STORY, they have what you would call free will.
No, if everything is preordained, the characters may belive they make choices and that they are free, but they can't be. To make an actual choice there must be different options available and with a future already decided there can be only one option: that what the characters do. They can do nothing else.

Or can they? Please explain to me how they can. How can the book character Sauruman repent, and do what he was sent to do?
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