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   From: briancanada71@yahoo.com   
      
   Perhaps it was the same power, masquerading as "chance", that allowed Bilbo   
   to find the ring in the first place.  That power, again under the guise of   
   coincidence, brings Aragorn to the Morannon on the same day as Frodo arrives   
   as Orodruin.  If it had played out any other way, the war might have been   
   lost.   
      
   The Army of Gondor still had to march, full willing, into the jaws of death   
   for it to work.  Frodo still had to use every ounce of strength he   
   possessed, which was not sufficient, but we all know how that played out.   
      
   But the timing seems really beyond any individual's control, even Gandalf,   
   that was present that day.   
      
   Brian   
      
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