'Which is as Fate to all Things Else’ - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HerenIstarion · 02-12-2006, 01:38 AM

The poll is made at Nilpaurion Felagund’s bidding, who, evidently, found the debate of davem and yours truly about the subject interesting and requested study of general opinion.

The guidelines:

Quote:

Therefore [Eru] willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else; and of their operation everything should be, in form and deed, completed, and the world fulfilled unto the last and smallest.

Reference:

Evil Things (page 2 and onward)
That Good Night – Gift or Punishment?
The Halls of Mandos and Elvish ‘Free Will’
The Role of Fate In Middle Earth
The Treason of Isengard: Eru’s Plan?

My own (i.e. HerenIstarion’s) opinion:

Treason of Isengard, post #16
Evil Things, post #90
Good Night, post #8
Evil Things, post #92
Halls of Mandos and Elvish ‘Free Will’, post #18

Multiple choices are allowed

View Poll Results: The ‘special freedom’ of Man is expressed:
During his lifetime, in Arda, through special freedom of action	22	61.11%
In the fact of the Death	21	58.33%
After the Death	12	33.33%
I’m not sure	3	8.33%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 36. You may not vote on this poll