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Originally Posted by Inziladun
Oddly, Gandalf apparently could not see someone wearing the One. He certainly was from the Blessed Realm.
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In LOTR there are no cases of Gandalf
not seeing the wearer of the One.
In "the Hobbit" the evidence is controversial IIRC: maybe he did, maybe he did not.
Note also that at the time of writing of "the Hobbit", Tolkien has not yet developed the conception of the Spirit /Shadow World versus the World of Light, had no idea about the nature of Bilbo's Ring and had Gandalf as a Man, not a Maia. "The Hobbit" is not a good source of evidence for such things.