How many people touched the One Ring ?

[Knight of Gondor]

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

Very good point. What would it benefit the Ring if it became trapped in Shelob's cave for another age?
As fot the "Mysterious 10th person"... I really don't think it could have been Bilbo. He was too scarred by the ring and if he touched it again, I believe he would have been lost to it.

It's clear from conversations between Bilbo and Frodo that Bilbo had NOT seen the Ring. He wasn't completely sure it was even in Rivendell to begin with.

As for Shelob, it seems Gollum, who was most familiar with the dark creature's habits, expected that she would have no intentions or uses for the Ring. It was his hope that he would still be able to find it, cast off along with other inedible objects.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

A) Gandalf: Gandalf never touched the thing directly. As mentioned above, he used tongs with Frodo; with Bilbo he picked up the envelope the Ring was in, but not the Ring directly.

B) Gil-Galad: Conceivably, Gil-Galad was touched by the Ring, rather than vice-versa, in the last moments of his life.

[narfforc]

It felt suddenly very heavy, as if either it or Frodo himself was in some way reluctant for Gandalf to touch it. Gandalf held it up..............................

...........To Frodo's astonishment and distress the wizard threw it suddenly into the middle of a glowing corner of the fire...............................

................,then he stooped and removed the the ring to the hearth with the tongs, and at once picked it up. Frodo gasped. 'It is quite cool,' said Gandalf. 'Take it'............


There is at least two times Gandalf touches the ring. In fact in this sense Baksi beats Jackson hands down.....

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Whoops! You're quite right, of course.

[Finduilas]

I believe Sam had to take the Ring out of Frodos shirt, which means that Shelob would have no contact with it. I'm not quite sure about that though.

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