A sign that the ring was getting control.' Though he was getting restless and uneasy. He took all the credit for that to himself. 'But as for his long life, Bilbo never connected it with the ring at all. 'Yes, he warned me of that in his last letter,' said Frodo, 'so I have always kept it on its chain.' might suddenly slip off a finger where it had been tight.' Though he had found out that the thing needed looking after it did not seem always of the same size or weight it. was always worrying about it but he did not suspect that the ring itself was to blame. 'He thought the ring was very beautiful, and very useful at need and if anything was wrong or queer, it was himself. ' Bilbo knew no more than he told you, I am sure,' said Gandalf. 'How long have you known this?' asked Frodo at length. The sound of Sam Gamgee cutting the lawn came in from the garden. Yes, sooner or later - later, if he is strong or well-meaning to begin with, but neither strength nor good purpose will last - sooner or later the dark power will devour him.' And if he often uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fades: he becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the dark power that rules the Rings. 'A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life, he merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness. But the Great Rings, the Rings of Power, they were perilous. The lesser rings were only essays in the craft before it was full-grown, and to the Elven-smiths they were but trifles - yet still to my mind dangerous for mortals. of various kinds: some more potent and some less. 'In Eregion long ago many Elven-rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they were. 'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. You say the ring is dangerous, far more dangerous than I guess. 'And then you stopped, because you said that such matters were best left until daylight. 'Last night you began to tell me strange things about my ring, Gandalf,' he said. was smoking now in silence, for Frodo was sitting still, deep in thought. A bright fire was on the hearth, but the sun was warm. An event in the prelude to Frodo's Departure from the Shire see that entry for an overview: Next morning after a late breakfast, the wizard was sitting with Frodo by the open window of the study.
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