Don Marshall

in the vicinity of the Elendilmere.

The Elendilmere's got some sort of a response to it.

I don't know.

It is interesting.

Certainly, the idea of it being visible is also significant.

Let's go ahead and get into that.

I mean, first off, everybody, even his men, back off.

They are rightly afraid.

Isildur knows that the Elendilmere is visible, so he pulls his hood over his head, which is, you

how do we make invisible things visible and how do we make visible things invisible?

That's when he disappears completely.

And it brings up that question that we have gotten from time to time in the mailbag.

Does the ring also make the things somebody wears or carries invisible?

Let's talk a little bit through that.

Yeah, absolutely.

So in The Hobbit, in the chapter Flies and Spiders, Bilbo, who is wearing the ring and invisible, sings a couple of tunes.

And when he goes to get away, we read, quote, "'Out came his little sword.

He slashed the threads to pieces and went off singing.

The spiders saw the sword, though I don't suppose they knew what it was.'"

So for them, they're just seeing a sword dancing through the air because they don't see Bilbo.