"`Some, Galdor,' said Gandalf, `would think the tidings of Glóin, and the
pursuit of Frodo, proof enough that the halfling's trove is a thing of great
worth to the Enemy. Yet it is a ring. What then? The Nine the Nazgűl keep. The
Seven are taken or destroyed.' At this Glóin stirred, but did not speak. `The
Three we know of. What then is this one that he desires so much?"
--Gandalf, At the Council of Elrond
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