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[Kath]

This actually makes sense to my question of why would Gandalf say the ring "is quite cool" and dumps it into Frodo's hand before fully knowing it's the one ring. Had it been a regular ring it would've burned.

But it wouldn't. It had only been in the fire long enough for the paper to burn and gold has an extremely high melting point, so it probably wouldn't have been hot at all. Barely even warm.

On the wood elves front, I think PJ was likely trying to include bits from the books because it was the EE, and maybe to show Sam's fascination with them for a bit of character development. It was a shame that he put them so out of context, because here the general feel of sadness that it generates just doesn't fit. At the moment Frodo and Sam are a little freaked out that's fair enough, but they haven't even met a Black Rider, they have no idea of what awaits them, or that this trip they're making for Gandalf will end in tragedy.