frodo was both the weakest and strongest person in the Trilogy?

[littlemanpoet]

I remain intrigued by stone-of-vision's thoughts on 'the light in frodo's face' thread, regarding the Ring. May we have a quadrad? What is the nature of the Ring? It's a negative force, made by Sauron, an evil Maia, but subcreated by him from that which had been brought into being by Eru, so I guess I'm arguing for something in the Ring that cannot be subsumed under the categories of 'negative force' and 'evil'. Obviously, the Ring was these things, but I think/hope/expect/wonder-if there's more than that, especially in terms of the interrelatedness between the Ring and Frodo, the Ring and Gollum, the Ring and Sam, and all the interrelatednesses. Any thoughts?

By the way, Luthien and others who had been posting up until recently on this thread, I fear you may feel this has gone beyond you. Your insights were powerful and perceptive. I'd be interested to learn what you may have to add to this, too.