Lots of ringlore in FAQ of the Rings
More germane to the OP perhaps is this bit: How did the One Ring control other rings?
If that’s the case, just picking up the One Ring and putting it on wouldn’t give the wearer info on how to use the ‘back door’.
Other speculation may be found in that link too.
I hold with the theory that Bilbo didn’t use the ring’s features at all, save for its automatic ability to make the wearer invisible.
You say that as though it were a bad thing.
…One ring to buy them…
Does anyone know hot to say “Mall” in Elvish?
Sure. I’ll even put in in IPA for you: mɔ:l ɪn ɛlvɪʃ.
Hope that helps.
Drinking liquid out of a skull is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Mod edit:
Link to an NSFW link. If you’re interested, here it is, broken: oglaf . com / skulls.html
I ask to fight ignorance, and they send me a comedian. :rolleyes:
What you may be remembering is a passage in “Unfinished Tales” - a compilation of stories that Christopher Tolkien assembled and published based on his father’s works. One of the “Tales” is a conversation in which it is said that Gandalf orchestrated events in order to neutralize Smaug. I don’t think he envisioned the Battle of the Five Armies but by the same token it did send the goblins (orcs) back into the mountains and diminish their numbers for quite some time.
Yes, you are quite right, that is the passage I’m thinking of. In the appendices, now that I’m thinking, there is a very minor passage where Gandalf ruminates on what would have happened in the north had the dwarves not managed to repossess Erebor, and Smaug had been at liberty to ravage Mirkwood and the Beornings.
That excerpt, “The Quest of Erebor,” was originally written for the latter part of ROTK but can now also be found in The Annotated Hobbit. In it, Gandalf explains his thinking at the time of The Hobbit to Frodo and his Hobbit friends, and to Gimli, in Minas Tirith around the time of Elessar’s crowning.
Where there’s a WEP, there’s a way.
More than likely, Gandalf assumed everyone had one… and didn’t care if Bilbo had one or not… The One Ring was easily purchased… all anyone had to do was go to MyPrecious.us … duhhhhh…
actually, there’s some pretty cool stuff there…
Plus, Gandalf never was supposed to be omniscient. He’s got powers but not ALL of them… that would make for non-compelling storytelling… protagonists gotta have some weakness, gotta be in jeopardy at some point… the rise above the danger is what gets our blood flowin’…
Okay, that is just bad.
Where there’s a WEP, there’s a way
Where there’s a WEP, there’s a way
We don’t want to go online today
But the lord of the Net says nay, nay, nay
We’re gonna surf all day, all day, all day
Where there’s a WEP, there’s a way
*Sauron * and the Nagul didn’t know Bilbo or Frodo had the ring, and they were far more attuned to it than the wearers of the three. It was only after Frodo claimed the ring the Sauron had any idea he had it. And it was only after Sauron put on the ring and claimed it that the elves knew it had been made.
So the answer seems pretty clear: The wearers of the three couldn’t possibly have known Bilbo had the ring unless it put it on and claimed it. Whether they did sense the moment when Frodo claimed the ring isn’t covered in the books AFAIK.
One ring to rule the mall
One ring to buy them
One ring to ring them all up
And at the checkout…bag them.
Exactly. For example, he may be a wizard, but he’s not a ninja.
(Flashes back to Orson Bean and Roddy McDowall)
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
has to be “sauron@mordor.orc”
My parents recorded a broadcast of that from around 1987 (I’m basing this on the commercials for the 1987 Suzuki Samurai that are on the tape.) I watched that way too many times as a kid.
A bit of a hijack here:
The Seven didn’t rend the Dwarves invisible, and the Dwarven ring-bearers were neither corrupted by power (their natural thirst for gold was enhanced, as was their ability to get it, but not domination) nor “wraithified.” Given that invisibility seems to be a side-effect of being partially in the spirit world, is it possible that these effects worked differently on Dwarves because they were not directly the Children of Iluvater, and could not enter the spirit world, i.e. in essense had no spirits? Men and Hobbits were rendered invisible, and thus did partially enter the spirit world when wearing the great rings. But Men are Children of Iluvater, and biologically unlikely as it seems, Hobbits seem to be a sub-species of Men. I’m not clear on what happens to Men (or Hobbits) when they die. But I’m guessing that it’s qualitatively different from what happens to Dwarves, and I’m asking if it’s plausible that this is because Dwarves were created by Aule rather than Iluvater?