[Overtaxed]

That had not happened yet, or was not yet known, when the conversation you condemn took place!

Then movie-Elrond was dumber than book-Elrond! Refugees from the South had been moving north up the Greenway and there's unrest going on all around before Frodo gets to Rivendell (I'd link ecurbh's timeline if I could find it!)

[HairOfTheDog]

There is "unrest" everywhere! - there are bad guys around! - That is why they all came there to find out what to do! And they devised a plan to end it... in the only way that mattered. Would you have sent them to all to Gondor to fight? Maybe let the ring stay there? good plan!

[HairOfTheDog]

Boromir came through the Gap of Rohan on his way to Rivendell, it was open then... And under Gandalf's leadership they were all hoping to go that way when they left.