LotR -- Book 6 - Chapter 3 - Mount Doom

[davem]

Originally Posted by Fordim

No he didn't either:

CT clearly shows he did, and that that was his father's intention.

No-one who is capable of evil could have done what Frodo has done by getting there.

Frodo incapable of evil? I don't think a Catholic writer would have written such a character. The most moving thing about that moment, about the whole of LotR in some ways, is that in the end Frodo does succumb. Man (& Hobbit) is fallen. Sorry, but there's no 'Get out of Jail free' card for Frodo. He claimed the Ring: 'The Ring is mine'. That's when he vanishes - after he's claimed it not before.