[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

He put all his eggs into one basket, so to speak, and it turned out to be the gamble which ended him. A bit like my notoriously ill-advised decision to put hotels on the blue streets in Monopoly which cost me the game.

To sum up (with yet another metaphor - sorry! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ) he reached out too far and got his arms chopped off. So I think it was certainly not worth his while to create the Ring.