Quote:
|
The question is why Eru favored the Quest for Erebor over the house of Hurin, by helping one, and letting the other recieve the full penalty of their actions.
|
I think what you are having a problem with is timing. Smaug needed to be destroyed. Bilbo was meant to find the ring. It just so happened that both of these events happened during the quest.
During Hurin/Turin's time, it was not yet time for the personification of evil to be defeated in Middle-earth.
[ September 20, 2003: Message edited by: Eladar ]