# LOTR question - Who Knew about Frodo's 'failure'?

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**Created:** [May 28, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-question-who-knew-about-frodos-failure/689460 "2014-05-28T13:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-question-who-knew-about-frodos-failure/689460/41 "2014-06-05T21:24:23Z")

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> [@Chimera](#):
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> If he had not failed, if he had not been tempted, then the question would have remained for all time: Why did they need to destroy the ring? Because after all, if a simple hobbit carried it all the way to Mount Doom and tossed it in without issue, just how dangerous was it really?

This.

Only Frodo didn’t fail. His task wasn’t to destroy the Ring; it was to get it to a place where it could be destroyed. I misdoubt that any non-Ainu could have willed the ring’s destruction.

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