Just as an aside: Consider also the test that Galadriel and Faramir never had to take in the comfort of their own home. The test is this: carry the Ring for thirteen years on a chain in your pocket and never put it on and then after thirteen years of it being "your ring" in your pocket day after day, THEN try and throw it into your fireplace. Would Galadriel or Faramir have passed? No way. And that was exactly Gandalf's point; the ring already had a hold over Frodo even then, and it never let go.
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...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.
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