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Re: The Ring
Looking at Appendix B to LoTR:
"3441 (SA) Sauron overthrown...Isildur takes the One Ring...Sauron passes away and the Ringwraiths
go into shadows."
The Ringwraiths were definitely
not around when Isildur perished.
As to Evil-Ring-Drug-Rainbow Vibes <img src=rolleyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"> The Ring was looking to return to it's master. It "seized the oppurtunity" when Deagol dived into the river and "caught him". Whether it had sensed something in him I know not; but it is my personal opinion that it saw something else in Smeagol, something it could work into evil, and 'latched' onto him.
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Quote:<hr> "Here again, Sauron was calling out to the Ring. While the Ring may have slipped off Gollum's hand, it may have been in response to Sauron seeking it."<hr></blockquote>
That's what I'm trying to say. The Ring slipped off Gollum's hand because it
was responding to Sauron seeking it, ('sending out his dark thought from Mirkwood') and could see nothing left in Gollum - realized that it would never return to it's master if it did not leave Gollum.
Sauron may or may not have been exercising control over the Ring; but I severely doubt that he would have had any influence over the Ring's 'capture' of Deagol and then Smeagol; and even less influence over the betrayal of Isildur. He knew not where the Ring was or had been until Gollum made his way to Mordor, several years after Bilbo had escaped from the Back Door; and the Ring itself, before and after Gollum found it is reputed to have (like the Ringwraiths and Sauron himself) 'gone into shadows.'
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