One Ring Found by 'Most Unlikely Creature Imaginable': The Same Exact Type of Creature As Last Time

What are the odds?

Credit: New Line Cinema

MIDDLE-EARTH—Sensing the time was right, the One Ring to Rule them all slipped away from its most recent master, the the former-Halfling-turned-freakish-little-nightmare-machine known as Gollum. But then something happened the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by, in the words of Galadriel, “the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit.” Turns out the ‘unlikeliest creature imaginable’ is the exact same type of creature that picked it up the last time, though.¹

“If I had a silver coin for every time I’d been picked up by the ‘unlikeliest creature imaginable,’ I’d have two coins,” the Ring telepathically relayed when asked for comment. “Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it’s happened twice in a row. THREE if you count that first one, Déagol, who held me for a total of two minutes before Sméagol took me.”

Reports are circulating that at this very moment the Council of Elrond is debating what to do with the Ring. Surely the greatest and brightest minds from among the Free Peoples of Middle-earth can come up with a halfway decent plan for what to do with it now. It’s not like they’ll just give it to yet another Halfling, right?

Right??

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1. Now, does “the most unlikely creature imaginable” refer specifically to Bilbo and not hobbits as a group? Maybe, but then we don’t get to have as much fun with it as if it means hobbits in general, do we?