the ring had the power of control in the hobbit.
what power does the ring have in the hobbit?
control
as is told in "the hobbit", bilbo found the ring shortly afterward while lost in the tunnels near gollum's lair. when "the hobbit" was written, tolkien had not yet conceived of the ring's sinister history. thus, in the first edition of "the hobbit", gollum offers to surrender the ring to bilbo as a reward for winning the riddle game. when tolkien revised the nature of the ring for "the lord of the rings", he realized that the ring's grip on gollum would never permit him to give it up willingly. tolkien therefore revised the second edition of "the hobbit": after losing the riddle game to bilbo, gollum went to get his "precious" (as he always called it) so he could kill and eat bilbo, but flew into a rage when he found the ring missing. deducing from bilbo's last question—"what have i got in my pocket?"—that bilbo had found the ring, gollum chased him through the caves, not realizing that the hobbit had discovered the ring's powers of invisibility and was following him to the cave's exit. bilbo escaped gollum and the goblins by remaining invisible, but when he rejoined gandalf and the dwarves he was travelling with, he decided not to tell them that the ring had made him invisible. in fact he told them a story that closely followed the first edition of "the hobbit": that gollum had given him the ring and showed him the way out. gandalf was not convinced and later forced the real story from bilbo; he was thus immediately suspicious of the ring.
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a hobbit is a fictional creature created by j. r. r. tolkien.





















































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bullet::::- "the hobbit", a 1937 novel by j. r. r. tolkien





















































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bullet::::- "the hobbit" (1977 film), animated made-for-tv film





















































bullet::::- "the hobbit" (1985 film), film shot in ussr





















































bullet::::- "the hobbit" (film series), a three-part film adaptation of the novel "the hobbit"





















































bullet::::- "" (2012), the first film in "the hobbit" trilogy





















































bullet::::- "" (2013), the second film in "the hobbit" trilogy
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