Timeline for How does Gandalf (or anyone) know how to destroy the Ring?
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| Jul 12, 2023 at 12:51 | comment | added | Michael Foster | Anyway, if someone DID manage to find the Ring they would have decided to keep it, rather than destroy it. Likely even Elrond wouldn't have had the willpower to throw it into the fire. Gandalf managed to do it only because he knew the Ring wouldn't be damaged. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 11:39 | comment | added | MauganRa | @reirab confusing the right elf at just the right time is all that is needed for the ring to stay unnoticed. Or, for that matter, manipulating a fish or a crab to swallow it and hitch a ride. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:33 | comment | added | b_jonas | @reirab Well, Redcloak orders his hobgoblin minions to search for Xykon's phylactery giantitp.com/comics/oots0662.html , and they manage to find it giantitp.com/comics/oots0823.html , but I still think finding the ring would be impossible. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | reirab | @b_jonas Part of the problem there, though, is that corpses can float downriver and the searches rarely last more than a few days. A ring will mostly just sink and stay put. And he had, what, 3,000 years to dredge the river and with a whole army to do it? | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | b_jonas | @reirab People in the real world already have difficulty finding human corpses in a river, and that's with technological help like diving suits and ultrasound imaging available. A ring is much smaller than a corpse and also doesn't want to be found. There's no way he'd have found the ring. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 7:24 | comment | added | reirab | You'd think, knowing all of this, that Elrond would have searched the river after Isildur died... Imagine how easy it would have been to toss it in Mt. Doom when Sauron wasn't around. | |
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