The Three Elven Rings

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Alfirin

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.

Then why not keep the One there indefinitely?

Originally Posted by Alfirin

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.

I favour the idea of him being returned to his old body, since that's where he was when Gwaihir found him. All the items he had carried on his person would have been still there, undisturbed.