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I did read “The Last Ringbearer” by Kirill Yesdov. It’s…actually fairly good. Some problems. The whole middle portion of the book reads like a Le Carre spy thriller. Lots of spycraft among the factions (King Aragorn, Prince Faramir, and the Mordorians) in Khand. Weird. Really Effing Weird!
The book is a blasphemy…and some would call it a travesty. Little troubling things like Gandalf being one of the risen dead that Aragorn called from the Paths. Big troubling things like using the Palantir as weapons of mass destruction. Definitely troubling things like Galadriel’s bureaucratic advisors engaging in turf wars.
Some problems in the translation. By and large, the English version was quite good, but now and then, little oddities popped up.
A damned interesting effort. Hard to say if it was really worth the effort.
The Ring was, for the most part, destroyed intentionally. Its programming fought Frodo every step of the way to Mount Doom, but he kept going.
I suppose a lone Ringbearer might have wandered from the mission. A Ringbearer with one other traveler might have eventually run off on his own and gotten killed, if he didn’t trust his companion the way Frodo and Sam trusted (and were loyal to) each other.