The Three Elven Rings

[Alfirin]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I would think so. Gandalf could have merely kept it about his person until he felt he needed to use it. Wearing it continuously would have been quite reckless, and probably unnecessary. I do find it interesting to think how it must have aided him over the years. Thorin Oakenshield, for one, might have been harder to convince, without it.

Elrond and Galadriel, confining themselves to relatively secure environments, would have really had no need to be as secretive.

I tend to think that, when not needed, Gandalf may have gone so far as to keep Narya in a "pocket" dimenstion, not technically on his person at all. In some way's this might contradict the edict to keep his Maiar powers hidden but that might not apply to tricks not designed to influence anyone, or that anyone else would see (and even if they did, everyone who knew Gandalf knew him as a wizard and so would not have been surprised by another magic trick). With Gandalf, after all, you have the tricky bit of how he (maybe) can get a new body and still have possesion of a ring he was given previosly, as well as his sword (I think, did Gnadalf still have Glamdrig when he was white?). You either have to believe that Gandalf was ressurected in his original body (possible). his old body dissapeared and his new body ressurected in the exact same place, he found his old body and retrived the ring/sword (in which case, one might assume he would recover and clothing that his old body was still wearing). Through somespell/ divine intervention cause the ring to fly from his old body to wherever his new body was. Or that the ring was kept somewhere where the location of his old body to the new one was irrelevant.