This is in RotK, chapter-Mount Doom,page-245-246
Quote:
...and before it stood a stern, untouchable now by pity, a figure robed in white, but at its breast it held a wheel of fire(the ring). Out of the FIRE there spoke a commanding voice.
'Begone and trouble me (the ring) nomore!(after 500 years the ring must be tired of Gollum)If you touch me (the ring) you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom.'
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The ring must have known that it had almost taken over Frodo and would not be destoyed by Frodo. So it didn't want Gollum to do anything rash.
Why han't it spoken before?
Well maybe the ring needed to borrow a voice since rings don't normaly posess voices. And in order to do that it needed enough control over someone.
What do you think about that.