[TPotSS]

I'm voting for
++Cirdan
He's such a coward, and a bad leader!

In the first age, right after Morgoth returned from Valinor, Cirdan and his people wasted no time in getting soundly defeated and pushed back into their forts by Morgoth's wimpy little orcs. Cirdan and his precious havens were on the brink of total defeat when Feanor and his sons showed up and shredded the orcs to bits.

Throughout the next however many thousand years, Cirdan stayed glued to the coast like a monkey on the last banana on Earth. Why? Because the ocean was always the weak point of the bad guys. Melkor didn't like it and didn't attack by sea, so staying by the sea was a great option for the cowardly.

And later on, Sauron established himself in the southeast, and Cirdan was more than happy to stay in the northwest, right on the ocean, so that if things went bad he could jump on a ship and leave the good people of Middle Earth to their horrible fate. I'd bet that Cirdan slept on a ship, just in case of an attack.

The only time he ever ventured out was during the Last Alliance, when Gil-galad demanded that the elves help the Numenorians. I'd bet that Cirdan had to spend the first few months of the battle recovering from the twisted arm Gil had to give him to get him to leave the havens.

And then, when he was foolishly entrusted with one of the rings, what did he do with it? Make a refuge from Sauron, and take an active role in Middle Earth? No! He shoved it off on someone else.

Cirdan needs to leave.