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Originally Posted by Avie

but did HE [Elrond] offer to take the Ring there?If not why not?

I suppose because:

Originally Posted by Gandalf to Frodo

Behind that there was something else at work, beyond any design of the Ring-maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that maybe an encouraging thought

Fate (or Eru). In The Shadow of the Past, link provided above.

Besides, see The Role of Fate in Middle-Earth

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