[akhtene]

If everyone around keeps telling you that you aren't going to succeed, then will you ever?
It seems to me that Frodo's failure at the Cracks of Doom was to a great extent "prepared" by all those whom he trusted and viewed as wise and great. I see Frodo as an impressionable character, who readily absorbs advice and ideas from those who are great and wise. Nothing bad about that, if only...

He heared the scary history of the Ring. But when he was told to take the Ring and go, he obeys. He carries the Ring despite his fears and wounds... He finds strength for that when all strenght must have been spent...
But he knows (as he'd been told so) that HE HAS NO CHANCE OF SUCCESS! He'd heared from the same people who had encouraged him to go. Why didn't anyone tell him that he MAY succeed? I may be wrong, but perhaps his own disbelief in success weakend his determination.