in the lord of the rings, fate and justice play a huge part. everything happens for a purpose and people get what they deserve. if you are a good person, and persevere against danger and evil for the greater good, good things will happen to. if you are the evil, then bad things will happen to you. it is like tolkien created his own perfect way things happen, a more perfect version of fate.
take sauroman for example. he was once wise, but grew hungry for power and tried to take over landswith an army of evil. in the real world, dictators take over countries all the time. sometimes they are deposed. sometimes they are killed. but alot of the time dictators just keep on ruling, and people are unable to stop them, for fear of consequences.
but in Tolkiens world people can do something about these problems. the good guys, Gandalf and Aragorn and everyone else, stop sauroman's armies. he is defeated. Merry and Pippin convince treebeard and his ents to stop sauroman, who has oppresed them and destroyed their forests. the good guys win. what doesn't always happen in the real world happens in the lord of the rings.
one of the reasons people like the lord of the rings is that it gives the feeling that anyone, even a small hobbit, can do good and bring about justice. in the real world it's almost impossible even for governments and organizations to fix all the problems in the world.
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