Frodo was simply the only one who even had a chance to succeed. Yet even he failed at the end. How much earlier in the story would Gimli have failed? A failure like that, at the wrong point in the story, could have resulted in a great catastrophe. For example, Denethor could have gotten the Ring. Now THAT would have made all hell break loose, and Sauron would have definitely defeated the Free Peoples.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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