I think you are right Lobelia. Sam is definitely more of a "follower" character than a "leader" like Frodo.
I don't think Legolas or any of the Elves could do it, because look what happened to Celebrimbor and the Gwaith-i-Mirdain. They were so easily seduced, and Celebrimbor was one of the most powerful Noldor at that time. Legolas is only a part-Silvan Elf from Mirkwood (even if he is the Prince). He doesn't have that deep-down common sense and slow-awakening courage that Hobbits do. He would have stormed off to Mordor and challenged Sauron. And we all know how that would turn out.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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