"You mean not to follow them?"

[elronds_daughter]

Perhaps this is not what they meant to do, but Boro and Beanamir have made me think: If Aragorn, et al, had gone with Frodo and Sam, would the ring have even been destroyed? As Boro pointed out, the power of the ring was, at the point of its destruction, irresistable. Aragorn (et al), undeniably far more powerful than any hobbit, could have, at Frodo's declaration of ownership, attempted to wrench the Ring from him (as did Gollum). The effort would have been much more successful. If that would be the case, the world would have eventually been thrown into utter ruin...much, I'm sure, to Sauron's delight.