Birdland, Merry or Pippin may have reached out to others and reconnected as Frodo did not, true, but I shudder to think of Pippin's bright spirit crushed by the ring, and feel Merry would have yielded as Boromir to the lure of the ring (later, tis true, but he had a love of grandure). They both would have failed. Remember, despite Frodo's feeling of failure, he did not.
No comments on my theory that Sam's marriage to Rosie cut the last hope that Frodo would remain?
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Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?
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