There is at least one other instance where it is hinted at that Eru has interfered. Gandalf tells Frodo in "The Shadow of the Past":
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"Behind that there was something else at work, beyond any design of the Ring-maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was MEANT to find the Ring, and NOT by its maker. In which case you also were MEANT to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought."
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There are many more instances where we can ask ourselves if "chance" is just chance, or if it is MEANT to turn out like that, (in other words if it is the finger of Eru...)
In letter 156 Tolkien wrote about LotR:
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I have purposely kept allusions to the highest matters down to mere hints, perceptible only by the most attentive, or kept them under unexplained symbolic forms. So God and the "angelic gods", the Lords or Powers of the West, only peep through in such places as Gandalfs conversation with Frodo "behind that there was something else at work...", or in Faramirs Numenorean grace at dinner.
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