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Originally Posted by Radtech51
You make an excellent point, but however if the three rings were void of power at this time wouldn't anyone be able to see them?
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An argument against that is the fact that in all the time the bearers of the Three were with the hobbits in Minas Tirith after Sauron's fall, and on the road back to the North, there is no mention of anyone seeing the Rings, but again, Frodo.
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....the grey-cloaked people of Lórien rode towards the mountains; and those who were going to Rivendell sat on the hill and watched, until there came out of the gathering mist a flash; and then they saw no more. Frodo knew that Galadriel had held aloft her ring in token of farewell.
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LOTR Many Partings
If the Three were visible at that time due to the loss of the One, surely it wouldn't have been only Frodo to recognize the source of the "flash" from Galadriel.
The idea that the Three were not constantly worn by the bearers, either before or after Sauron's fall, would to me explain much.
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