[Sleeping Beauty]

I had forgotten that Eru had created Hobbits for the purpose of bearing the ring...I need to go read my history again. The reason, besides being made secretly, no one knew about the Hobbits and the Shire was for so long Gandalf had the Rangers guarding the borders of the Shire. Tolkien said himself in the beginning of the Lord of the Rings that Hobbits hid from Big People. If Men had saw Hobbits out walking or so forth outside of the Shire they would have probably would have thought them children. Tolkien said Hobbits had a magic about them that hid them from Men. They were very fast to hide because of their size. But yes if Frodo had died on the road to Mordor, the Fellowship would have felled and the Ring would have been taken. No one could have held the power of pure evil and not been swayed by it's force.