[Dondagnirion]

Well, here goes the explanation......

If they had not been captured then logically it would have meant that Boromir would have succeeded in protecting them until help came and therefore he would have gone to Minas Tirith with Legolas and Merry and Pippin. I know this because at one point (I forget exactly when) Aragorn says that if they had not been forced to pursue the captured hobbits then he would have gone with Frodo to Mordor with Sam because he "would not have had it any other way." and Gimli, because those were the companions he would have chosen for that journey, e.t.c. This would also mean that Rohan would have fallen to Saruman because Aragorn would not have been at the Battle Of Helms Deep to lead the defense (I am not dissing Boromir in this saying he could not have done Aragorns job but he just did not have Narsil and that was a big part of it, plain and simple). Then when Rohan fell Minas Tirith would also have fallen, and hence the whole thing would have been in vain. It is my personal belief that Tolkien saw through this line of reasoning and that is why he wrote the books out like that.

Dondagnirion
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