Bilbo wanted to play a final joke on the Hobbits by slipping the Ring on his finger and disappearing. Gandalf attended Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday/going away party in 3001 of the Third Age. How would it have wound up in the caves under the Misty Mountains? The Long-Expected Suspicion Regardless, the chances of Bilbo’s ring being the One Ring, which to his knowledge was sunk in the sea, were slim. Whether this was common knowledge among the Elves is unknown. However, can we assume that Gandalf definitely knew this? His hardcore research on the Rings of Power wouldn’t happen until 3017. The same would not be true for the One Ring, though it would be fairly obvious if Sauron possessed that again.īut here’s the rub – the Seven and Nine Rings all had jewels. The same is true for the Seven Rings (which are probably identical to the Nine). There’s no reason for Gandalf to just assume that Sauron couldn’t disperse the Nine Rings again to make more wraiths. Tolkien stated a good number of times that Sauron held the Nine Rings after turning the Men into Ringwraiths. It’s not clear whether Gandalf ever knew their location. It’s assumed that at least four of the Seven Rings of the Dwarves are destroyed, but the Nine Rings for Men are definitely still in play. While the Three Rings of the Elves are accounted for, the location of the remaining Rings of Power are not all known. ![]() A shadow fell on Gandalf again, but he pacified his fears – Bilbo came from a long-lived on his mother’s side. Meanwhile, Gandalf kept an eye on Bilbo and noticed that he was not aging. Gandalf, however, likely took Saruman’s position, not knowing that Saruman had invented the story of it washing out to sea and was looking for the One Ring for himself. There it shall lie until the end, when all this world is broken and the deeps are removed.”Įlrond, who was also at the White Council, was still a bit nervous that the One Ring might be found. ![]() ![]() “Into Anduin it fell, and long ago, I deem, it was rolled to the Sea. If Gandalf had any fears of this, they were (maybe) set aside by the assurances of Saruman who had studied the Rings of Power in depth. In the Silmarillion, however, we’re told that Gandalf wanted to attack Sauron before the Dark Lord found the One Ring again. Details about why he asked are sketchy, but it could possibly be that he finally began to seriously consider the idea that Bilbo’s magic ring was the One Ring. Across those nearly six decades, Gandalf learned much more about the Ring.Īt the final White Council in 2953, Gandalf asked Saruman about the One Ring. There are 59 years between the ending of The Hobbit (2942) and the Long-Expected Party kicking off the Lord of the Rings (3001). In this post, we’ll delve into the Lord of the Rings-era material to finally figure out when Gandalf knew it was the One Ring and why he seemed to do nothing about it. How is it possible that Gandalf failed to connect the dots pointing to Bilbo’s ring being the One Ring – Sauron’s Ring of Power? In our previous post, we looked at Gandalf’s history with the One Ring through the Silmarillion and The Hobbit.
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