The real plot hole is not how to return the ring. It is the idea of returning the ring:the ring that will grant Sauron’s will to dominate and abilities to name great curses to those in possession of it.
Geography has it’s own sentience in Middle Earth. Mountains are malevolent, forests are perfidious.
Mount Doom must surely be worst of all. A mountain whose roots creep deep and can reach into the fiery and shadowy underworlds (in which many terrible horrors reside).
So casting the ring into mount doom will not destroy it. No. It will provide that volcano with Sauron’s power. And an army of horrors older than time, with a reach across all of Middle Earth.
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