Another thing we must remember are the bigger forces at work. Gollum's part in LotR was summed up by his destroying the ring when Frodo could not. If Gollum hadnt been knocked back into stinkerage by Sam things could well have been very different. The ring may never have been destroyed, and in a word, that would stink. Maybe the Valar meant for such a thing to happen through sam's natural mistrust.
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There long the golden leaves have grown, upon the branching years, while here beyond the sundering seas, now fall the Elven-tears...
but if of ships I now would sing, what ship would come to me, what ship would bear me ever back, across so wide a sea?
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