Could you imagine either way? If they had not taken the way through Moria, and had made for the Gap of Rohan, Frodo would have ended up around more and more men, so either by Boromir's hand or someone else's the ring would have been tried to been taken. And the consequences of that would be devastating.
If Gandalf had already been Gandalf the white, *shudder* then there would have been hardly an adventure at all. Gandalf would have simply led Frodo to Mount Doom, and that would have been the end of it. No Gollum really, because Gollum didn't really begin to appear till it was close to Gandalf's fall. But it all would be a new interesting story indeed. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
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