Drama out of nothing... perhaps (Regarding the War of the Ring)

[Smaug]

Hey guys,

I had a thought the other day. Obviously there was a certain necessity to get rid of the One Ring by destroying its threatening and callous power in the fires of Mount Doom. However, for many in the book (characters and general inhabitants of Middle Earth) wasn't the situation blown out of proportion just a bit perhaps? Granted, the free peoples were gravely threatened under the implications of the War of the Ring if Sauron should have become victorious, but there was at least some scope for the free races of Middle Earth. I mean, Sauron with the One Ring would have been unstoppable and would have without doubt taken over all the lands of Middle Earth but even his power (very great though it was) could be logically escaped. Obviously, the majority of dwellers in Middle Earth who did not take the passage along the waves to the Blessed Realm would have suffered pivotally and it would have been only the Elves plus potentially a select few of other races with permission (or rather the capability) to sail to the Blessed Realm with the ability to fully escape. Those who could have sailed to the Undying Lands would have escaped the grip of Sauron and his dark forces, as the Blessed Realm was unreachable even to his claws (metaphorically!) and any intervention by servants of the Dark Lord (if possible) would have been mostly likely suppressed by the power of Manwë. However, the dilemma here would be that the rest would be left to endure the torment of Barad-dûr under total captivity!

A second scenario could be that Eru Ilúvatar would never let his offspring be subject to complete dominion in Middle Earth by such corrupt evil and either He or the commissioned Valar would intervene to stop the advancement of Sauron if the situation got out of hand to such an extent that the Dark Lord could take total dominion over the free peoples. Sauron after all had neither the authority nor the strength to contest the power of the Valar or even greater, the actual creater of Arda, the one Eru.

Just a few thoughts from my mind and open to critique of course! Primarily, I wanted to project my feelings as the Internet thus far lacked coverage of my possibilities in the works of Tolkien to my knowledge.