Gandalf knew that Frodo and Sam's quest was very close to hopeless. For a couple of seconds, the emotional part of him could have led him to believe that the Ring was indeed taken, and all of Middle-earth utterly doomed, but the rational part of him would have taken over in a few moments, and led him to realize through the subtle hints previously mentioned, that the Ring had not been captured at all. If one Hobbit was free, and had the Ring, they still had to give that one Hobbit a chance to destroy the Ring. It was their only hope.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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