That is essentially correct, except that Sauron put down the one ring and presumably hid it before going to Numenor as a captive.
With respect to Men, at least, the canonical answer to that question is “no”. Illuvatar alone knows what happens to Men after death; even the Valar are in the dark on that one.
I believed that at one time too, but further study indicates that Sauron did indeed bring it to Numenor. More later, wifey needs me! 
Boy, go away to fulfill my marital duties, and Skald steals my thunder! 
All part of the service.
Not directly, but we get a glimpse of his dialogue recounted by Pippin, after he sneaks the palantír and ends up communicating with Sauron, who thinks that it’s Saruman on the other end.
So to return to my original point, do you think that the Ring acted differently on the Dwarves because they were the adopted Children of Iluvater, originally created by Aule, and thus spiritually more grounded in the earth, and not grounded at all in the spirit world of Valinor (even though Valinor is/was a physical place)?
IMO, you’re probably tangentally right there, but are overthinking it (at elast as how I see it). Consider that, even with the wide array of psychotropic drugs available and the bizarre effects some have adulterated with each other or with other substances, and tha wide range of ways in which human brain chemistry can go awry mimicking the effects of those drugs, vanishingly few people decide they are, or would desperately long to be, tree shrews.
The dwarves reacted as they did because they are dwarves, because that is the way in which Aule made them (and Iluvatar granted them independent life) – because that is part and parcel of their nature within the LOTR universe, and outside it in the archetype of what a dwarf is, on which Tolkien founded his concept.
Why, in turn, that is the case is a question best left for theoretical psychologists of the Jungian school.
“marital duties” - that’s what the kids are calling it these days?
I think he was paying the Visa bill online.
Let me see if I understand what you’re saying. You’re saying that the Dwarves react to the Ring as they do because that’s their nature/brain chemistry, not because Aule rather than Iluvater designed them?
I am sincerely confused as to exactly where the tree shrews come in, but I think the point you’re trying to make is that different drugs act differently even within the human species?
I can’t really comment, other than to say you’re putting forth some hypotheses which I don’t believe have any explicit support in any of JRRT’s writings.
They’re interesting hypotheses, but unless you can cite the Professor making some sort of statement indicating that the dwarves were spiritually grounded in that portion of Arda which excluded specifically the Undying Lands, I see no reason to extrapolate further from that idea of yours (other than the fun of the typical JRRT freak bull session, anyway).
Putting up shelves was that particular marital duty of the moment.
And calling those of us who recall the Eisenhower administration “kids” is amusing.
BTW, my review of HOMES turned up a lot of interesting tid-bits of the dwarves, but not much else about non-invisible dwarves, except in this exchange between Bingo and Gandalf:
Return of the Shadow, III Of Gollum and the Ring.
well, at least Mrs Qadgop didn’t ask if you had not forgot to wind up the clock… 
I guess what I was trying to say is:
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Dwarves react differently to Rings than Elves or Men because they are Dwarves, with Dwarvish psychology rather than Elvish or Mannish. It’s a product of their nature.
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IMO (and I could of course be wrong), the fact that Dwarves are adopted Children of Iluvatar rather than His direct creations as Elves and Men are, has nothing directly to do with that difference – Men and Elves behave distnctly from each other, as also do Dwarves. The differences are attributable simply to the different psychologies of the three Kindreds, and not to the differences in their origins.
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The nature of Tolkien’s dwarves were founded on that of Nordic dwarves, which appear to be an archetype. The divergence in origins does not extend back into the mythical/legendary source material.
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There was a logic behind the tree shrew comment – something like, no matter how differently different people react to the same or similar stimuli, there are some consistencies across the spectrum of reactions, some things that no or extremely few people will evince as reactions. However, the exact point I was trying to make in setting up the analogy escapes me now, and in rereading it, it seems to be mildly dismissive of your point, for which I apologize.
Gondolin had fallen by that time. Gil-Galad was the last of the High Kings of the Noldor, which included the survivors of Gondolin.
Gondolin was more or less the Switzerland of Beleriand – a valley surrounded by high mountains that were kept guarded, and hence held out the longest of the Elvish kingdoms against Morgoth during the First Age. Its king was Turgon.
Gil-Galad was territorially King of Lindon, the Great Britain-shaped coastal area where the Grey Havens (Mithlond) were. Lindon was the sole surviving piece of Beleriand after its destruction in the Battle of the Valar at the end of the Silmarillion proper. He was also heir to the High Kingship of the Noldor after Maedhros perished.
Only he, Celebrimbor, and Galadriel remained in Middle Earth of the House of Finwe, the royal house of the Noldor after the First Age. Celebrimbor perished with his Kingdom of Eregion (Hollin) in the War of the Elves and Sauron, which was somewhere near the middle of the Second Age. When Gil-Galad decessit sine progene at the end of the Second Age, only Galadriel was left. She was acknowledged as Lady of the Noldor, but did not claim to be Queen.
Of course not; she was a king. “Two rings for the Elven-Kings and one for the Elven-Queen under the sky” just doesn’t scan right.