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[LoTR] Would the Journey to Mount Doom be easier if it was Done 17 years earlier when Frodo just received the Ring from Bilbo? How would things have changed?

Apparently Frodo had the Ring for 17 YEARS before most of the events of the books and was just hanging onto it before Gandalf came back and sent him on the journey.

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EDIT: For People saying that Everyone including Gandalf would think the Ring is some other Ordinary Ring of Power.

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1. The Elves have those. It clearly isn't like those.
2. The Ring gives a Tempting Effect.
3. The Ring itself is suspicious enough that Gandalf bothered to research it.
4. 1-3 proves that if they put the two and two together faster they would know.
5. The question is what would they after they know.
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The journey to Rivendell is no problem, that's for sure. But once they get there, then what? Gandalf has no proof that this hobbit trinket is the One Ring to Rule Them All, Isildur's Bane and Doom of the Dark Lord. The only way to definitively prove this is Sauron's ring is to heat it up and reveal it's secret writing. The problem with that is the writing was a secret for thousands of years, until Gandalf's 17 years of research paid off when he found an account of Isildur that mentioned the heat-message. Without that strong evidence, Boromir will drill Gandalf until he admits that Saruman, trusted Head of the Wise and the foremost expert on ring-lore, thinks the One Ring is lost beyond all recovery. With such a lack of any evidence and the authority of Saruman against him, no one will be willing to walk into Mordor for Gandalf's hunch.