Why didn't the Ring draw Smaug to Bilbo?

I take it you're referring to this. 😆

Squint-eyed Southerner said:

I take it you're referring to this. 😆

https://thetolkien.forum/threads/is...eagles-flying-ring-to-mordor-authentic.30242/

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I suppose that could be the source... but I read it presented in print in some of my recent researches. I believe when I was working on the Eagles.
I can try to recover it if desired.

L Ray Hedberg said:

Indeed. We must remember that "the ring was trying to return to its master". And that "a great deal of Sauron's power was put into the ring." So much so that at its destruction, Sauron became, essentially, nothingness.
Therefore, the ring of itself made many of its own 'decisions' as it were...who it would choose, how it would return, etc.
In such a case, the range for our speculation increases exponentially with no clear answer possible.

As Tolkien himself once responded when he was asked a particular recurring question in an interview - one for whcih there is no reasonable answer other than pure speculation - according to the reporter, his response to the question and questioner, after some thought, was simply - "shut up". (He was quite tired of that particular question..!!)

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Glad to see someone a bit (or a lot) more experienced is in agreement with this!

I just found this and didn't remember... @Ent , you were once L Ray Hedberg?!

Elbereth Vala Varda said:

you were once L Ray Hedberg?

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Yes, when Ent first logged on, he was unaware he could be himself, so he assumed a 'name of men' . That is one of his very earliest posts... within 4 days of joining, before he knew even what little he thinks he knows now.

In very short order, (a week?), a certain Admin advised him his name could be changed, so Well-aged Enting later The Enting, then The Ent and finally just Ent has since been making his foray into the world of Tolkien here on TTF, though it had started in March of that year... the grind through several largely unacceptable and frightening Facebook groups and peek at a couple other forums.

Thank you for refreshing the memories. Ent still has some of his work on the Eagles (and several other studies) at hand to expand and do something with should he ever stop feeling the need to be 'learning' and start 'finalizing' things.

(He also still feels pretty much like but a Well-aged Enting when it comes to the ocean of Tolkien lore to learn.)