How to break into a ring

Mirkwood, the underground palace of the wood elves.

Bilbo Baggins looked very nervous. The palace seemed very lively today. There were actually two rows of beautifully carved wooden chairs placed under the steps of the Elven King's throne.The brown-robed wizard Redagast sat in the first seat on the left. Opposite him was Elrond. The chairs next to Elrond and the brown-robed wizard were all empty, and the other seats were filled with elves wearing cloaks or cloaks.

Some are like wood elves, except for some gems, with no decoration on their clothes.

Some elves' robes have wide cuffs, similar to Elrond's. Most of them have black or golden hair, which looks more elegant and more in line with human imagination of elves.Bilbo had seen these elves, and they were the Noldor of Rivendell, slightly different from the Silvan Elves.

They were gathered together so that anyone who entered the temple could feel a radiant white light all around him, like the soft and hazy beauty of the distant mountains when the moon is just rising.

This made the gems and pearls inlaid on the dome of the palace more dazzling than usual.

Thranduil did not lean on the throne made of curved cypress branches as usual, because there were not only the elves he ruled sitting here, so another chair was placed in the center under the steps, and the captain of the palace guard was standing whispering something next to him.

"Half-orcs...the Romanian Wastes..."

Bilbo heard only these two vague words.

In fact the elves on both sides stopped talking when he came in, and stared curiously at the hobbit.

"Bilbo Baggins." Elrond stood up from his seat, Bilbo hurriedly saluted him, Elrond also nodded slightly to him, and then said solemnly: "Please take the coin you got from the Misty Mountains." Take out your ring and put it here."

In the middle of the hall, there is a round stone table with silver light reflecting on its surface.

The table was empty and there was nothing.

Bilbo walked over. He stuffed his hands into his pockets, and when his fingers touched the cold ring, he couldn't help but squeeze it tightly.He tried hard to take the ring out of his pocket, but there was a voice in his heart—"These elves say it will bring terrible disasters, but they refuse to keep it. I don't care about this ring at all, but With it, you can help the dwarves enter the dragon's lair. It turns out that the adventure journey should be like this, not staying in this beautiful and gorgeous underground palace and being guarded by elves like prisoners."

Bilbo immediately instinctively refuted this idea-"I believe in Lord Elrond, just like those ballads that have been passed down for thousands of years. I believe everything he said. Now just give this ring to the elves, and I can help my companions, I don't know if they found the treasure in the Lonely Mountain"!

Thinking of those dwarves, Bilbo immediately broke free from the temptation of the Lord of the Rings. He took the ring out of his pocket and put it on the same cold table.

Human beings are most likely to be bewitched by the Lord of the Rings, followed by powerful sages.

Because the sage can clearly feel the powerful power of the Lord of the Rings, and knows that after he gets this power, he will become the strongest existence besides Vera, and will never die.

For example, wizards and elf kings, or Elrond, they all need strong willpower to break free from this confusion.

The most difficult thing for the Lord of the Rings to confuse is the hobbit, because they are simple, without ambition, nor greedy, they only love food and the crops growing in the ground. Unless time slowly corrupts the mind and soul, the Lord of the Rings is difficult to deal with a hobbit. bit people.

Bilbo had been deeply affected by the Ring, but his struggle to take it out was so slight that no elf could see it, and Elrond's eyes fell on the ring.

The brown wizard waved to Bilbo, and carried away the squirrel who was squatting on the empty chair beside him.

Bilbo plodded in the chair, forced a smile, and asked Redagast in a low voice, "Where's Gandalf?"

"Huh?" The brown-robed wizard turned his head blankly, his eyes under the peaked hat widened, "I didn't see it, didn't the wood elf say that he set off to the Lonely Mountain to find those dwarves?"

Bilbo breathed a sigh of relief.

With the wizard around, the dwarves are safe even from the dragon.

"But I heard from the Titmouse and the Crow that gold and precious stones flow down the Lonely Mountain into the Long Lake, and that the Dwarfs will fight the Men for the treasure." Redagast lowered his voice, and muttered to Bilbo, "Many Wood-elves are going too. It's bad! Those dwarves are too stubborn!"

Bilbo was taken aback by the news, and he peeked at Thranduil behind Elrond; "Does the Elven King know this news?"

"Of course." The brown-robed wizard's expression was exaggerated, and his beard moved accordingly, which was very funny.

"Then he's still here? Didn't go to Long Lake Town?" The hobbit found it incredible.

Redagast remembered the debts he owed, and immediately began to pull his beard: "The Lord of the Rings must be more important. Besides, even if there is no treasure in the Lonely Mountain, the Elven King will always have a way to collect his beloved gems and silver."

Bilbo groaned in agreement.

Then he heard an elf calling Redagast's name:

"Dear brown-robed wizard, we came from Lothlorian. Mithranda brought the news that Isildur's nemesis has been found, and the phantom lurking in the south of Mirkwood mysteriously disappeared."

This elf looks a little different, he is wearing armor with delicate patterns on it, behind him is a dark red cloak, his long pale golden hair even exceeds his elbows, and his voice is as cold as Night Vale's voice Qingquan, with a bow and arrow on his back, and a long sword decorated with elf runes on his waist.

Bilbo knew that Mithranda was the elf's name for Gandalf, and it meant gray saint in Elvish language.He wondered, didn't Gandalf help the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain, why did he go to the golden forest in the legend of Lothlorian's song?

Bilbo wasn't the only one who was surprised. Elrond and Thranduil looked up at the elf at the same time. Obviously they didn't know where Gandalf was going.

"The gray-robed wizard had a long secret conversation with our Lady Galadriel, and then left Lothlorien for the Misty Mountains."

Elrond could only temporarily put aside his doubts about Gandalf's whereabouts. He stretched out his hand and motioned everyone to look at the golden ring on the table: "When I saw it again, I was quite sure that this was Isildur's nemesis, Sauron's. The Supreme Lord of the Rings! I heard the sound of it trying to confuse, but now, its magic power seems to have disappeared... Or, I can't feel it."

The elves talked one after another, and they really didn't feel anything unusual from this ring.

Thranduil also stared at the Lord of the Rings with a solemn expression.

"But we can't take the risk of picking up the ring to distinguish its authenticity!" Elrond looked at the surrounding elves with sharp eyes. He lowered his arms and chanted a few spells in a very low voice, and the silver round table immediately rose. There was a red flame.

Bilbo couldn't help covering his eyes, then carefully removed his fingers and looked at the rings on the table.

The Lord of the Rings was quietly wrapped in flames, and the originally cool air in the hall became stagnant, and the heat continued to rise.

Until the entire silver table turned red, the golden ring still remained unresponsive.

Elrond sighed, and the flames died away.

"It's really not the Lord of the Rings!" Some elves murmured in low voices.

"Sauron's Supreme Lord of the Rings has an evil language written in elven script, which will appear on the ring when it encounters high temperature and scorching!" The elves have eternal life. Len's battle.

Elrond retreated to his seat, resting his thumb and forefinger on his forehead, lost in thought.

Thranduil's eyes fell on the brown-robed wizard, and his voice was coercive and angry: "Could it be that Saruman means that the real Supreme Lord of the Rings is already in my palace and has been replaced by someone else?" ?”

"No, it's not like that!"

The brown-robed wizard stood up quickly. He was very short. He hurried to the round table with his staff in his hand and said, "We all have a misunderstanding. The Supreme Lord of the Rings was made by Sauron himself. How did he make it? How did he make it? How many rings are made, this is something that no one knows."

"This is impossible. Since it is the Supreme Lord of the Rings, of course there is only one!" The elf in armor and long pale golden hair spoke again.

"According to common sense, this should indeed be the case. But Sauron should know that the Supreme Lord of the Rings also determines his fate. Didn't he plan for the possibility of losing the Lord of the Rings when he created the Lord of the Rings?"

Elrond slowly lowered his arms, and his heavy voice overwhelmed all the discussions:

"Is this the inference of the Holy White Council, or Saruman's guess?"

"Ah..." the brown-robed wizard pulled his beard in embarrassment, "I don't know, but I haven't thought about it myself, and I think what Saruman said makes sense."

After the elves pondered for a while, some of them nodded in agreement.

"Then what is Sauron's plan?" Thranduil glanced at the golden ring on the table.

"One, or several rings that are exactly the same in appearance as the Supreme Lord of the Rings, and all the imitation rings are connected with the power of the real Supreme Lord of the Rings. The difference is that wearing these rings can only make you invisible, and even the most powerful sages cannot Gaining power from the imitation ring, but also have to bear terrible consequences. If someone wears the imitation ring, the ring spirit can also feel it. . . . many rings are easier to find than one, and that was his plan."

The elves were apparently convinced by this speculation.

"Where is the real One Ring?"

Redagast twisted his nose, and said after a long time: "Saruman didn't say, but I guess, Sauron's sudden disappearance must be related to the Supreme Lord of the Rings! The Romanian Wasteland is full of orcs, maybe we You should keep an eye out there!"

"What should I do with this ring?"

"The only thing that can really destroy it is the flames of Mount Doom. The opinion of the Holy White Council is that Bilbo Baggins should take this ring to Isengard. Unless Sauron regains his body, no one will be able to get out of it." Take this ring from Saruman's hand..."

"Even if it is an imitation ring, it should not be handed over." Elrond suddenly said, "None of us should get anything related to the power of the Supreme Lord of the Rings... We, everyone in the Holy White Council!"

"But Isinger is safe enough. The shadow of the Mirkwood is too thick, which may increase Sauron's power." Ridagast's wrinkled face was also very serious, "Evil power should not reside in the elves. Territory, Golden Forest Roselorian and Rivendell are not allowed."

The atmosphere of the meeting became strange, and Bilbo put the ring back into his pocket. Although it had been burned for so long, the golden ring was still cold.Elrond himself took Bilbo out of the palace, and after turning into a corridor full of silver fountains, Elrond whispered to Bilbo: "Don't go to Isengard, I will have someone escort you back to Shire, remember Take my word for it, don't give this ring to anyone!"

"Yes, Lord Elrond."

After Bilbo finished speaking, he began to hesitate again: "I can go to my companions. I heard that they are still in the Lonely Mountain!"

"The matter of the treasure in the Lonely Mountain is also very difficult. You can only stay in Thranduil's palace for three more days."

"You...you don't trust Redagast, do you?"

"No, I'm just..." Elrond's wise gray eyes were full of worry, and the sadness of the years could be easily discerned at such times, and his voice was as deep and slow as the last syllable of a harp.

"I just saw horrible darkness, burning forests, and destruction..."

He slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he had returned to his usual appearance. Elrond looked at Bilbo who was in a daze, and comforted him, saying, "Many things are just a possibility, so don't suffer for it, if my guess is right , Gandalf will come to you."

"Oh." Bilbo continued in a daze.

"What are you thinking?"

"Ah, nothing!" Bilbo was embarrassed, ashamed to say that he had been thinking of the Heart of the Mountain gem the Dwarf had spoken of just now, and that it was a pity that such a magnificent treasure had never had the chance to see it with his own eyes.

So the hobbit scratched his hair and asked a random question: "Just now the chair beside Lord Elrond has been empty, is that for Gandalf?