# LOTR: Frodo never had a chance to destroy the One Ring. He is shown from the very start he cannot do it

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It’s suggestive; but I’m not sure it’s conclusive, arguing from “he could not do so, not without a great struggle” to “cannot easily let it go”. There’s wiggle room built into each of those.

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