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Originally Posted by Morwen
I don't think it could have been out of his possession for very long i.e. more than an hour or so. As Legate points out, though Gollum no longer wore the Ring frequently, he still needed to check on it constantly.
This need to constantly check on his Precious leads me to think that the period of time between Gollum losing the Ring and Bilbo finding it must have been short indeed.
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Precisely. From the sources we have, we know that it was "just a few hours":
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Originally Posted by The Hobbit
Only a few hours ago he had worn it, and caught a small goblin-imp.
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