system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why didn't the Elves just take the One Ring to the lands that they sailed off to?

Would the One Ring have corrupted their lands or was it just not a possibility for some reason or another?
gpt
Someone suggests taking it to the West at the Council of Elrond, and Elrond replies that the people who live there wouldn't accept it as for better or worse it's part of Middle Earth, and the people that live there need to deal with it.