[sighing]

Theoden's value only appears after Day 7, basically. He needs to survive to lose his weakness.

As I mentioned to a couple of people by PM, the ring unmaking was NOT supposed to be easy. Frodo/Sam/etc would have to specifically be trying to accomplish that to have a shot at it at all. The death of a power-wolf is a big reward.

Best case strategy (I think): Frodo comes out on D4 with three peeks, and includes Sam, but names him as Gollum. Nobody has incentive to kill Gollum once he's outted, and the real Gollum won't counterclaim. Wolves kill Frodo N4, and then Sauron's peek-o-meter starts over on N5. By N7, Sam is almost certainly still alive. Obviously Gollum can't be outted for this to work [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

(Gollum was another "leveling" role, where he has to avoid giving the wolves information while protecting the ring-bearer at the same time.. if Gollum comes out, he has a much harder job, though he won't be killed by anyone)