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   From: mr@sandman.net   
      
   In article ,   
    Stan Brown  wrote:   
      
   > > > Remember that Bilbo never knew that his ring was, in   
   > > > fact, the Ruling Ring until the Council of Elrond.  Up to that point,   
   > > > it was simply a useful magical artifact which was precious to him.   
   > >   
   > > Huh? Gandalf confirmed it to him in The Shadow of the Past, just after   
   > > Gandalf has read out the ring verse:   
   > >   
   > >     He paused, and then said slowly in a deep voice: ?This is the   
   > >     Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them all. This is the One Ring   
   > >     that he lost many ages ago, to the great weakening of his power.   
   > >     He greatly desires it ? but he must not get it.?   
   >   
   > I believe Gandalf was talking with Frodo, not Bilbo.  In that   
   > Chapter, Bilbo is already long gone.   
      
   My apologies, I read Frodo in the above paragraph. :)   
      
      
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