I have downloaded a UT book (digital) to check, and in the note 11 of THoGaC, CT says:
Earlier in this narrative (p.249) it is said that Gil-galad gave Narya, the Red Ring, to Círdan as soon as he himself received it from Celebrimbor, and this agrees with the statements in Appendix B to The Lord of the Rings and in Of the Rings of Power, that Círdan held it from the beginning. The statement here, at variance with the others, was added in the margin of the text.
I think this is why I thought what I am saying, for the published text.
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