When Bilbo gets lost in the Goblin Cave, he sits down and does what any respectable hobbit would do in that situation - he began to bawl, hoping that Gandalf would come and find him. Too bad for him that a frogman in a black wetsuit finds him first and tells him he is from the Marines. He gave Bilbo a new secret government technology permitting him to become invisible in the form of a ring. Then he gets taken aboard the Marines' helicopter to the awaiting President Reagan who commends him for being so respectable and bawling at the appropriate time so that JRR could get his fairy tale a new twist. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
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"'Hold it up!' said Gandalf. 'And look closely.'
As Frodo did so, he now saw fine lines, finer than the finest pen-strokes, running along the ring, outside and inside: lines of fire that seemed to form the letters of a flowing script. They shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth.
'I cannot read the fiery letters,' said Frodo in a quavering voice.
'No,' said Gandalf, 'but I can. The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. But this in the Common Tongue is what is said, close enough:
One Ring to Bring them all and in the darkness bind them.'"
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