Love this comment!! Not only a great philosophy, but well said. But let me politely challenge you a bit and see what you think. There are several things that happens in the lore that Eru did not intend and were not in line with the Music, and even some things that surprised him greatly (if you accept all of Tolkien's writings). For example: * the Valar were NOT supposed to let Morgoth stay in ME. Eru was furious with Manwe when he found out. * the Valar were NOT supposed to take the Elves to Valinor. Eru said that was a terrible idea, against the elves nature to be free and explore, and against his plan * Eru did not intend Men to die. But when early men rejected Eru and swore allegiance to Morgoth, Eru made them mortal and said "I will see you soon, humans". So I for one do not personally see the world as predestined. I suspect Faramir would have been AWESOME in the Fellowship. But I am certain that if Boromir had stayed behind and led the defense of Minas Tirith they would have been close to unbeatable!!!! What do you think? Am I crazy?

🤣 So true.... this was one of my first tries at a video and was still figuring it out. Now I will never be able to rewatch this one without chuckling 🤣

Yeah - 100% true!! Never thought of it that way, but your right - the movie timeline doesn't make sense!! 😶 Ok, here is my guess. You remember at the end of the Hobbit movies Thranduil tells Leggy to go find Aragorn - that he might become a great man. It's so weird, because Aragorn is like 10 yr old at the time. Well maybe in the movie universe Aragorn was born 17 years earlier.... so he is more like 27 at the time of the Hobbit so Thranduil isn't quite so crazy? 🤔🤔🤔 (what do you think?)

@@thegreyhavens167 I did some digging and from I read, Aragorn was 20 years old when he became a ranger so Thranduil was correct on describing him as a young ranger but it kind of puts a monkey wrench in the timeline Tolkien established

Honestly, kind of a fitting punishment. He is irrelevant. Probably driving him crazy to this day!!!

🤣🤣 Serious?.... Well serious in the way that this is what Tolkien wrote. Here is the actual story in JRRT's words: "[On 24 September Khamul] overtakes Frodo at approaches to Woody End - probably by accident; he becomes uneasily aware of the Ring, but is hesitant and uncertain because of the bright sun. He turns into the woods and waits for night. After dark, becoming acutely aware of the Ring, [Khamûl] goes in pursuit; [Khamûl] then makes a mistake (probably because he imagines the Ringbearer as some mighty man, strong and swift). For a while he had been in great fear, thinking that by some means Gandalf had got possession of the Ring and was now the Bearer." So yep, he get's scared that a great warrior is there. For a bit he thinks it's Gandalf with the One Ring... who could then dominate him and command him. But he sensed someone super powerful. G and Aragorn were hundreds of miles away. Only ones there were Frodo, Sam, and Pip. So either A) Khamul was scared of nothing or B) he was scared of one of those 3. There you go . What do you think? (hope you liked the vids, btw)

@@thegreyhavens167 Prretty informative, thanks

Love this comment! I feel the same way. I think that's 100% Saruman's plan. If Sauron wins, S-man hopes he will eventually be able to learn enough to make his own Ring to defeat the Dark Lord. He no longer has good intentions, but he is still working to defeat Sauron.