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There was no need for the rope to be saved.
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They did have use of the rope later on, actually almost immediately afterwards - they tied Gollum with it.
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tp, you have also overlooked the obvious in Tolkien’s narrative problem documented by Christopher Tolkien in
War of the Ring. The dangling rope was a means not only for Gollum to more easily follow them, but for him and any other pursuit – orcs or Nazgűl – to determine that the trail was hot.