Yes, this is off tangent with the question raised at the start of this topic, but it's been like it for a couple of 'pages' now, as a lot of topics go.
I believe Frodo was under total influence from the Ring at the Cracks of Doom. But what else could he do if he WASN'T to throw the Ring in? Sit there and wait for Sauron to kill all his friends and then finally notice him and claim the Ring back? No, it was a logical step to claim the Ring himself. As Frodo says to Sam earlier, he was UNDER THE RING'S CONTROL. This is what happened at the Sammath Naur. The Ring finally took total control of Frodo. But (and how many times do I need to say this), Mercy won the day. If you had to call it something, I would call it Fate. Not help from 'above' or a fluke. But FATE that this was to have happened.
So, in my opinion, the answer to the original question is that Frodo was under the total influence of the Ring, and is not to blame. My answer here has nothing to do with success, failure or 'sin'. Just a basic reply to the original question.
I am not idolising Frodo by stating this. If we look at it from an 'outside' view, how boring it would have been to have Frodo throw the ring in without much of a struggle. Tolkien got it right.
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