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[LOTR] Can the One Ring be WILLINGLY destroyed by a mortal?

Frodo did not willingly cast the ring into the fire/magma, the ring fell into it more or less out of his control. Basically what I'm asking is if say Frodo had managed to reach the crack of doom within an hour or two from first receiving the ring, would he have been able to throw it in? Or does the corrupting power get stronger as one gets closer to Mt Doom?
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Not only mortals, but even Sauron himself would not have been able to willingly harm or give up the Ring. From Tolkien's letters:

> Also so great was the Ring's power of lust, that anyone who used it became mastered by it; it was beyond the strength of any will (even his [Sauron's] own) to injure it, cast it away, or neglect it.

There are very, very few people in Middle-earth that could resist the One Ring's power. Given that even Galadriel and Gandalf admitted their vulnerability to its corruption, it's likely only the Valar (gods/archangels), Tom Bombadil, and perhaps Ungoliant could have willingly destroyed the Ring.