Each person's understanding is bound to be different. We're lucky that we have the capacity to understand the true meaning behind Frodo's seeming failure. Many non-Tolkienites out there, however, do not. Jackson made these movies as much for them as he did us. He simply had to simplify themes so that the non-Tolkienite audience wouldn't walk out saying, "What the heck was going on?" As much as we don't like it, it had to be done.
Bravo, Child! To me, Frodo's spiritual journey was more significant than the physical journey that he undertook. Even in the beginning, he was a wise, rather astute Hobbit. By the end of the Quest however, he was so "spiritually mature," that it seemed as if he turned into a mere vial holding the bright, white light of his fëa. Even Gandalf said so. The Quest consumed him so completely that barely anything was left behind.
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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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