Curses, an omission!
When I was trying to bring up Melkor's Mishap with the Trees, I neglected to point out that the Sun and the Moon were able to range all across Arda, and hinder evil at every turn. Under the Two Tree scheme, only Valinor was protected and lit, and the rest of the world had to be content with starlight, mood lighting if you will. Romantic, yes. Troll's bane? Hardly.
Interesting viewpoint about Sam the Ringbearer, Aratlithiel. I had never thought about his handing back the Ring as a failure to be Ringbearer. There's some great threads around this forum about the minor Ringbearers which are worth checking out. Of course, Elrond didn't put any onus on Sam to bear the Ring, only to help Frodo, so he was meeting his performance criteria as far as that was concerned, and probably would have been in for a fat pay rise come Elrond's next review.
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