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Why was J.R.R, Tolkien so adamant in letters that Frodo didn't fail? Did he not fail to resist the ring and destroy it?Frodo didn’t fail. But he took on more than he bargained for.The Council of Elrond was as far as Frodo thought he had to go. It turned out to be a much longer and more dangerous adventure.Even Gandalf never said how they were going to get the Ring to where it could be destroyed, where it was made in the first place.And as it turned out it wasn’t Frodo that destroyed the Ring, it was Gollum, quite by accident, I suppose you could say.Frodo got the thing to the Cracks of Doom, but he was overwhelmed there, where the Ring was at its greatest power, and Gollum fulfilled a suggestion by Gandalf that Gollum still had a role to play in the whole affair.Gollum dies happy, holding his precious.