[VanimaEdhel]

The problem with having any being other than a Hobbit take the ring is that the ring fed off of a desire for power. The reason that Frodo got as far as he did was that Hobbits did not display the ambition that the others races displayed. Hobbits enjoyed being separated from the strife that took place in the rest of Middle Earth. Frodo's pure intentions were what guided him through the ordeal, in my opinion. The other races present did have an innate desire for power. Although they start out with a determination to destroy the ring, it would, for example, take Gimli's basic Dwarf love for treasure combined with the desire for revenge to take back Moria, and eventually destroy him. And for those that say "Legolas could have taken it", as I've seen many people say over the two years I've been here, Elves did not have a record for being the most modest race on the Earth. And most races of Men were quite obviously corrupt. If one looks at the choices for taking the Ring, the Hobbits are the only ones that could really be trusted at all with the ring. And towards the end, even Frodo felt the power of the ring strongly.