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To prevent the creation of a Pro-Peregrin-Foundation, I used this euphemism .)
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How do you know there isn't already one of these? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Interestingly enough, Pippin was the one who was dead set on stopping Frodo from going to Mordor at the point where they split up. I wonder how this dynamic would have played out in the end? Someone, probably Merry, would have to point out to Pippin that this was the very reason they went on the journey. What I wonder is, if the hobbits had all stuck together, with Pippin voicing this dissent and Merry trying to convince him and Frodo getting more and more dragged down by the conflict along with the burden itself...would Sam have piped up sooner and offered to carry it for Frodo? Perhaps it would have been Sam who tried, for Frodo's own good and thinking that it would "solve things", to take the Ring from Frodo and go on to Mordor carrying the burden himself. If Frodo had stayed with the Fellowship, certainly these pressures would have worn more heavily on him, and the danger would be shared among all, although the focus on everyone's part would be toward the source of their danger--Frodo and the Ring. Perhaps the next to fall would be the one who thought that he was more suited to bear the risk, a seemingly altruistic motive. In that way, I could see Aragorn falling for it.
Cheers!
Lyta