And yet,
Mith you have failed to put your vote where your mouth is....why the reluctance to weigh in with an actual "Yes" or "No"?
As to your view of Eru as "setting things in motion" without actually "getting involved", how do you explain
what happens at Mount Doom when Gollum "slips" into the Fire? Tolkien himself was quite clear (in the
Letters somewhere) that there was the direct intervention from 'outside' at that point....