The Fellowship - doomed to fail

[Leaf]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

This too is paradoxical as the un-person would still have to have an impulse to destroy the Ring, which (even if the un-person viewed the Ring as a worthless bauble) would still "influence" the un-person's surroundings, even if only to the extent that the un-person was no longer holding the Ring.

This is true. That's because the very notion of (free) will, or intention, is entwined with the concept of what defines a person. I suppose some kind of souless machinery could have done the deed. But then again Gandalf would have to build and program a Robo-Frodo substitute.

As it stands it was destroyed by "accident", and not by choice.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Leaf

I suppose some kind of souless machinery could have done the deed.

Maybe Tolkien dropped the ball on that.