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Then straightaway they brought him into the dreadful presence of Sauron; and Sauron said: 'I hear now that thou wouldst barter with me. What is thy price?'
And Gorlim answered that he should find Eilinel again, and with her be set free; for he thought Eilinel also had been made captive.
Then Sauron smiled, saying: 'That is a small price for so great a treachery. So shall it surely be. Say on!'
Now Gorlim would have drawn back, but daunted by the eyes of Sauron he told at last all that he would know.
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I don't think this is a good example of sanwe taking place, Heren, but rather dreadful intimidation. Gorlim told Sauron what he wanted to know, but probably with spoken language not thought-transmission. But intimidation like that could make someone drop the guard of Unwill. But it wasn't the case here.
The best example of sanwe (whether aided by rings or not) I can find within the legendarium is, oddly, in
Many Partings. It's the convo between Galadriel, Celeborn, Elrond and Gandalf.
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Often long after the hobbits were wrapped in sleep they would sit together under the stars, recalling the ages that were gone and all their joys and labours in the world, or holding council, concerning the days to come. If any wanderer had chanced to pass, little would he have seen or heard, and it would have seemed to him only that he saw grey figures, carved in stone, memorials of forgotten things now lost in unpeopled lands. For they did not move or speak with mouth, looking from mind to mind; and only their shining eyes stirred and kindled as their thoughts went to and fro.
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The greyness of the figures maybe isn't poetic, but relates to some overcoming of their hröar by their fëar(?). If sent thoughts are dimmed "in force and precision" by hröa, does the hröa show any change?