so, like. they had to destroy the ring by putting it in mount doom, right. but like... couldn't they have thrown it in any old volcano, or just the bottom of the ocean, if all they needed was to ensure that nobody could ever get at it? what's the problem with that strategy that i'm overlooking?
or was it that they needed to destroy the ring properly in order to destroy sauron? i'm not entirely clear what's load-bearing against what here
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@typhlosion To properly destroy Sauron so thoroughly he couldn't return, the One Ring needed to be completely destroyed. The only place the One Ring could be completely destroyed was the place where it was made, in the fires of Mount Doom.
The Ring itself was the load-bearing constraint.
