Alternate "Hiding the Ring" strategies

[narfforc]

The Ainur could be corrupted, the risk of sending the ring to Valinor was too great. Who knows whether the Valar had the power to resist this thing.

Edit: Exerpt from The Council of Elrond: But Gandalf has revealed to us that we cannot destroy it by any craft that we here possess, said Elrond. And they who dwell beyond the Sea would not recieve it: for good or ill it belongs to Middle-Earth; it is for us who still dwell here to deal with it.

[Thalion]

Why not send the Ring to Valinor with the Elves?

Ibid what Narfforc said, on top of that, reread my previous post...if the Valar themselves wouldn't allow Gandalf or the Istari to show their true might in Middle Earth in order to help men overcome the might of Sauron, then it can be reasoned they certainly wouldnt just accept the ring to keep it for safe keeping...asides from that, it wouldn't solve anything...Sauron would have won regardless unless the ring was destroyed as it was...