When trouble comes, what do we do? Run back to our familiar hobbit holes, mope around, stop caring and wait for darkness to fill our worlds? That doesn't sound like a good bedtime story. It doesn't teach any lesson. It's got a miserable ending and nobody would want to listen to stories like that. For stories to stay interesting, the characters must continue the quest, endure all hardships and win in the end. That, I think, is the best thing about stories. Writers and readers usually want the characters to win in the end. As God is writing our life stories everyday, He didn't mean for us to get caught and killed by the bad guys. When the story finds us in a tight spot, he could write supporting characters to help us get out of it alive (like Tom Bombadil or Glorfindel if you're a fan). And if it isn't enough to save a character, writers could even use the Deus Ex Machina plot device just to keep someone alive. Of course that's fiction. In real life, we call that providence, the divine intervention of God.
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