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View Poll Results: Is there free will in Middle-Earth?
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Old 07-18-2005, 09:30 PM   #11
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In a world where prophecies can be made, even if they are self-fullfilled, does that really give anyone free will?
Adding to what mormegil said, a prophecy is not specific. Usually it does not go beyond saying that X event will happen. It doesn't say who will make it come to pass, or how exactly it will happen.
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