THE RING and corruption

[Dininziliel]

willie quoted me and after that he added a question:

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If a greater will was responsible for Bilbo finding and bearing the Ring, and subsequent bearers
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Are you suggesting destiny or something else? It seems very interesting.

Remember when Gandalf told Frodo that perhaps he was meantto have the Ring? My question/suggestion related to the will behind the Ring's travels throughout time. It's not destiny, unless one defines destiny as synonym for the greater will of Iluvatar. So, I am suggesting it is the will of God as Tolkien conceived God, that is shaping events according to natural law established when Arda/Earth was created.

At one point in SillmarillionIluvatar tells Melkor that nothing Melkor does can even ultimately subvert the will (I think the word was actually "plan") of Iluvatar.