[Annalaliath]

This is all a great way of saying that there is sin in the world and no one can escape it. Tolkien was a devout Catholic. So, inevitably we have the ring which is pure evil, and also, very powerful for those who can use it. It corrupts indefinitely and no one can escape its corruption, not even Frodo, even though he is a Hobbit and it seems to take longer than it would have to corrupted anyone else. Like sin this means that no one can escape it not even Mother Teresa; and Tolkien knew this. But there is also sin in Middle Earth that is not connected to the ring. So, we just have to come to the terms of this ring as evil and the temptation it poised was great enough that even Gandalf the strongest and the wisest of all wizards was afraid of taking it. And Galadriel, one of the Noldar( I think I know that she originated in Middle Earth and then went to Valinor and then came back to ME. I think that makes her a Noldor does it not?) older than Elrond was hesitant to take the One Ring. This means that for all accounts and purposes it had to be entrusted to a Hobbit. Yesterday in church the pastor brought up a great point that applies here, God's people cannot be trusted. It applies in the way that this task was taken up by Frodo and he could not be trusted to fulfill it in the end, because Middle Earth was also somewhat of a fallen world and sin existed and the Ring was an embodiment of all power and evil in the world. And Frodo could not resist the ring when it came time to cast it into the Crack of Doom; it took Gollum to take it from Frodo and fall in. In the end it was not an upright righteous person to do the deed, it was a crepe little evil dude who did the job.

Rant, rant, rant, I could go on for days....