Quite right, they are indeed contradictory. I believe that the Three Rings were imbued with the virtue of allowing their bearers to make the ring invisible so as not to draw attention, but Saruman being a master of Ringlore would have known this. Could this be a topic for Continuity errors in Tolkien?
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