I wonder what happens if you launder pants with the One Ring in the pocket?
It would go wherever all the pens go from my purse. I have not figured out where this is.
If I washed the One Ring with my socks, it would have an approximately 40% chance of being irretrievably lost each time. And I could wash it several times, so forget that bothersome hike through Mordor!
This is one of weirdest posts Ive read on this site. Any URLs or photos or anything?
"Eight companions? I’m supposed to be saving the entire world and all you guys are giving me is eight bodyguards?
Screw that. I’m not playing The Dirty Dozen here. I don’t want a small elite force sneaking into enemy territory. I want The Longest Day. We’re going to invade in force.
Start mobilizing now. I want an army on my left, and army on my right, and about five armies in front of me. And a few more in reserve covering my back. We’re going to get a million troops together and we’re going to take Mordar.
Then after we defeat Sauron and his army in battle, we’ll have a nice victory ceremony and I’ll drop the ring into the volcano in front of all the news cameras."
I think Sauron needs to shower now. A lot. 
The problem here is that the One Ring is not made of Gold (which has a fairly low melting point, in the Middle-Earth Universe as well as here), but rather, like seemingly virtually every other metal object in LOTR, of the ‘rare’ metal Mithril (chemical symbol Mr).
Mithril was known to the Third Age only as the native element, which was av ailable only as a vein in Khazad-Dum. (Actually it’s a very common element in the MEU, but occurs mostly as the tightly-bound and difficult-to-refine sulphate and phosphates (Mr[sub]2[/sub]SO[sub]3[/sub] and Mr[sub]2[/sub]PO[sub]2[/sub], Mithrous sulphite and phosphite, and Mr[sub]3[/sub]SO[sub]4[/sub] and Mr[sub]3[/sub]PO[sub]3[/sub], Mithic sulphate and phosphate, the latter two commonly known as the mithic 'phates).
Mithril’s melting point has never been directly established, and appears to vary with time and the requirements of JRRT’s plot.
I’d be sitting in the Shire waiting for the flashbacks to stop.
Okay then, if “Mithril” has a higher melting point than gold, it may prove difficult to destroy, but how would it react to some of the more reactive elements like Mercury, which bonds effectively with gold (yes, I know Mithril is fictional, but if it did exist, how would it react to mercury)
if that didn’t work, how about irradiating the ring with Gamma rays, perhaps the Gamma energy could disrupt the non-corporeal Sauron (either that or turn him into The Incredible Hulking Sauron, thus making matters even worse! SAURON SMASH PUNY HUMANS, ELVES, AND DWARVES!)
hm, perhaps I’m a bit too wired on caffeine…
The Ring is described as “gold” or “golden” consistently, as I remember; nowhere is it said that it’s made of mithril. Even if it was actually gold, Au, its dark and immensely strong enchantments obviously included a charm against melting in anything other than the fires of Mount Doom.
Wandering carnival show.
Destroy the Ring, win a Prize!
I’m certain the Ring was gold. It’s always described as such, never as mithril. And when Gandalf tosses it in the fireplace as his final (and two-part) test of whether it is THE Ring, he says something to the effect that this little fire could not have melted even ordinary gold in such a situation, but Frodo’s bauble wasn’t even hot. This clearly implies that the Ring is a special sort of gold.
Were I inclined to ponder such things (which, obviously, I am), I’d say that the enchantments woven about the Ring, allowing it to draw on the power of the Morgoth element in Arda, which was strongest and most concentrated at Orodruin and were responsible for the violence of the volcano. Tossing the Ring into the lava at Mount Doom caused the enchantment to break, and thus the spells making it virtually indestructible were no long in effect. From that point it was obviously no tougher than ordinary gold.
Duck Dodgers gets your dry cleaning by mistake, and whacky hijinks ensue?
Actually, it’s been my contention for a while that mithril is actually aluminum. Pure mithril is not as strong as steel; Bilbo’s mail coat is said to be an unspecified alloy of it. And the Elves were known to use mithril as an ingredient in synthetic gemstones (note: Ruby, sapphire, and several other gems are aluminum compounds) and other wondrous materials (like the moon-writing that Elrond reads on Thorin’s map). The fact that it can be alloyed implies that it can be melted, and the fact that it can be made into gemstones implies that it can take part in chemical reactions.
It makes your whites whiter and your brights brighter! Also your dryer becomes pure evil.
Really? I always figured it was Titanium.
I’m pretty shy, especially when it comes to meeting new people/species in unfamiliar circumstances, so I probably wouldn’t have been able to leave the Shire in the first place. I mean, I have to go find who now? And they live where? And I could really, actually die doing this?! Yeeah, no. Sam will be fine without me.
I would have probably lost it after drinking too much and getting tossed out of the Prancing Pony.
I’d long-range catapult the thing into Mordor 
That would maybe fail spectacularly.
edit: Morder-> Mordor
You wouldn’t be the first. Or the last. 