Rachel Port
Well-Known Member
If Thorin and Gandalf were fated to meet so Bilbo would find the Ring, then, if they had made different choices that day and hadn't met in the inn at Bree, would the other choices they made have led to the same result? In other words, was the fated event their meeting, or was it the finding of the Ring, so that other paths to that end would have led to that result?