Destiny-

So I had an actual written response to this that was better thought out that what I'm writing now, as now my brain feels like a scrambled mix of tired and incoherent script words and lord of the rings mythology. So i'll try my best to get something that actually makes sense into this blog, and so back to what I was saying, I left said sheet of paper with said written response, at school, in my english binder.
So, I think destiny plays a huge part in the lord of the rings books. For me it is really hard to argue this point without saying, "it's a book! The character's are controlled by destiny because destiny is the author, tollkien, is destiny. The characters can't travel outside of the writers mind and can't do anything he doesn't want them to do." But when you talk about the idea that literature is a mirror of real life, the only way you can continue to argue this is if you bring god into the argument- and I don't want to do that. If you bring God into the argument then the argument isn't about The Ring, or Frodo, or Lord of the Rings, or literature. It becomes an argument about God. So lets talk about destiny.
I want to write something that is an actual response not me just rambling on about how something can't be, as above. I think I should give my english teacher a bit of a break on my really long blogs.
So if we forget that the characters in lord of the rings are simply characters, if we think that they are in fact on earth and no controlled by a writer, then we can actually talk about destiny. With everything said, I still think destiny plays a big part in the story, and in literature and therefore our lives. I think we wouldn't be having this blog assignment and wouldn't have spent days of talking on destiny if destiny didn't play a role. Free will and destiny can be intertwined, I think. A lot of people say one thing and then you can argue "well what about free will" well... What about it? Why can you not have free will and destiny. I don't think destiny means that something is grabbing you and forcing you through life and you make these choices so you end up from point a to point b and you don't actually have any choice. I don't think that's true. To properly explain what is going on in my head, say for a moment, that destiny is a person. So you are born, and destiny and standing at the end of your life, at age 15, after a car accident. And destiny thinks, ok, this is how it's gonna be. But you, at age 15 decide that you don't want to go make up with your 17 year old boyfriend because he was a jerk, so you don't get in the car that destiny thought you'd get in and get in a car crash, that doesn't happen. YOu go into your house and you life till a ripe old age. People are wrong. So if we say destiny is a person, then can destiny be wrong? Why can't it be wrong? why can't you start out having a set destiny, but free will changes your destiny. I don't think it was every anyones destiny to end up homeless and hungry on the streets of L.A.
I hope I made sense.  I don't know if I answered the blog post like I was supposed to.