The Westward Road

[Rhod the Red]

Taking the Ring West, even as part of the effort to destroy the Ring, even if it was safe to travel to Gondor that way, would only have risked(to use Legolas' phrase) more lives of Gondorians at the Anduin battles, I fear.

[ninja91]

If the ring HAD gone over the sea, the good peoples of middle earth would probably have been destroyed. First, there would have been no Fellowship. Therefore, Aragorn would not have gone south, to gather the Oathbreakers. Minas Tirith would have fallen to the Witch King and the Corsairs. Gandalf would not have died, therefore no Gandalf the White to help Erkenbrand reinforce Helm's Deep.
And I do not know of any evidence. Sauron did not have any bases on the shores of Eriador; that is why he did not consider hobbits. Interesting thread!

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by ninja91

If the ring HAD gone over the sea, the good peoples of middle earth would probably have been destroyed.

A good point. Without destroying the Ring and therefore destroying Sauron, the free peoples of Middle-Earth would have very likely perished.

Minas Tirith would have fallen to the Witch King and the Corsairs.

Do you then think that the Corsairs and/or the Nazgûl would not have been the ones who would have went after the Ship of the Ring? Who then?