Fantasy Morality

[Galadriel55]

For the gazilionth time, tumhalad, a christian God also allows suffering. Suffering that is brought upon the people by their own choices. If you want to compare the two, you must consider this.

But each text does approach the notion of "providence" differently, and I'm not talking about the contextual stories that sit together with Turin's story.

Yes, one text is told through the eyes of hobbits, and one through the eyes of elves, or suffering Edain.

The story, it seems to me, deliberately evokes a sense of undirected fate. That is a very different proposition to Gandalf's "you were meant to have it...and that is an encouraging thought..."

What do you mean by 'undirected'? That there was no power driving Turin to where he got? Please reread all the posts before this one. I remember myself and others addressing this issue many times.