Destiny

Disregarding the fact that Tolkien made the decisions for all of the characters, I still believe that none of them have free will and that they all would have ended up in the same places regardless of what choices they make. Frodo was meant to be adopted by Bilbo to inherit and destroy the ring. Sam was meant to be found eavesdropping. The hobbits and Striders paths were meant to be crossed. They were meant to help the cause of destroying the ring.
In real life, we have to make decisions all the time. Most decisions are as easy as choosing between an apple and a banana for breakfast and we don't even think about how simple that decision was. I believe everything we do is also predetermined and we really don't have much choice like we would like to believe.
A famous Cognitive Psychologist named B.F. Skinner once said that "free will is an illusion". He of course was bashing Abraham Maslows idea of Humanism, which stresses the idea that humans are unique because they have free will. I don't think we are that special. If every other single creature on this planet has a predetermined destiny, then what makes us, an ape that happened to have lucky and favorable genetic mutations, have free will?
Case in point: "FREE WILL IS AN ILLUSION"