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re: Official Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug Review Thread (spoilers)

Posted on 12/30/13 at 7:20 am to
Posted by boxcarbarney
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Posted on 12/30/13 at 7:20 am to
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The obvious answer is that while he knew of the connection and was unsettled by it, He also may not have known the details of Ring lore. Keep in mind, Sauron was linked to all of the rings of power to a degree. It's hard to imagine that the One Ring, after being lost for thousands of years and assumed long since washed to the bottom of the ocean, would suddenly be right there in the Shire of all places.


Perhaps. It just seems that the Ring and Sauron are so tied together that Gandalf would have known what to look for. Hell, in this Hobbit movie, all Gandalf had to work with was a silhouette in some fire and he was able to figure out it was Sauron.
This post was edited on 12/30/13 at 7:24 am
Posted by USMCTiger03
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Posted on 12/31/13 at 5:21 am to
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Perhaps. It just seems that the Ring and Sauron are so tied together that Gandalf would have known what to look for.

I don't think you comprehended the response. The ring was scattered to the winds without any mention for such a long time. Plus, the ring being so powerful and linked with Sauron would make it even more unexpected that it would be hanging out somewhere as harmless as the shire in bilbo's junk. It's pretty incredible if you think about it in context.

Kinda like if you were getting a blanket out of your grandma's closet and came across the ark of the covenant.
This post was edited on 12/31/13 at 5:26 am
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