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   From: jon.lennart.beck.its.my.name@mail.its.in.danmark   
      
   "Matthew Woodcraft"  skrev i meddelelsen   
   news:87y5ko43mk.fsf@golux.woodcraft.me.uk...   
      
   > "Raven"  writes:   
      
   >>   Galadriel wore one of the Three, that were bound to the One.  If Sauron   
   >> had recovered the Ruling Ring, he would swiftly or immediately have used   
   >> it to dominate the bearers of the Three.  It stands to reason that they   
   >> would be able to notice whenever the One was used, so I suppose   
   >> Galadriel knew for precisely that reason.  Gandalf and Elrond presumably   
   >> also knew, but didn't bring it up.   
      
   > But then wouldn't they have known straight away that Bilbo had found the   
   > One Ring?   
      
   > Or when Gollum went out to catch goblins for lunch, for that matter?   
      
      That is a good question, and I can see only two ways to answer it.  One   
   is that I was mistaken.  Galadriel only knows because Frodo told her   
   earlier, but this was not narrated; or he told Gandalf in Rivendell, and   
   Gandalf told Galadriel via Elrond's messengers that passed through Lórien   
   before the Fellowship did, or via Ósanwe-kenta.  A special plea in this case   
   is that Galadriel discovered it while staring Frodo in the eyes at her first   
   meeting with the Fellowship.  In that case she was One.  Powerful.  Lady.   
   I'd be wary of appearing before her even if I knew that she had no ill   
   feelings against me, and seven times wary if I suspected that she might.   
   Thrice wary if I had fapped during the previous few months...   
      The other answer is that the wielders of the Three (or maybe only   
   super-Galadriel) *did* feel it, as a sort of  "disturbance in the force",   
   but interpreted what they had felt correctly only after it became clear that   
   Bilbo had found the Ruling Ring and let Frodo inherit it.  I doubt that she   
   knew from her mirror, because it seems to have been a much more wayward   
   far-seeing tool than the Palantíri.   
      
   Corvo.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)