Is There Any Canonical Reason Why The One Ring Doesn't Abandon Bilbo In Mirkwood, Despite The Presence

Is there any canonical reason why the One Ring doesn't abandon Bilbo in Mirkwood, despite the presence of the Necromancer/Sauron? I can’t remember if Gandalf had already banished the Necromancer by the time the Dwarves and Bilbo get lost.

It‘s been a while since I read the book, and (to me, anyway) it makes sense that the Ring would abandon Bilbo in favor of it’s Master.

Of course, the story would have been quite a bit shorter of Sauron got hold of the Ring in Mirkwood.

I have finally reached the point where I am seriously thinking about writing and posting fanfic of my own creation.

Dear God help me.

I have discovered the Murderbot Diaries via Fanfiction. I don’t really understand what is going on, but Murderbot seems to be an alright entity (person? robot?)

Hey while you're loving elephants: Denver Zoo has two teenage boy elephants and one Old Man Elephant named Groucho, and lately they've had the lads housed with him so he can teach them Proper Elephant Manners like how bulls raise teenage boy elephants in the wild. Bull elephants are apparently very into being parents but due to the matriarichal nature of most herds, they really only get to raise calves after they've hit puberty. My point is, one of the boys was being annoying and chasing rabbits so Groucho came up and jabbed him in the ass with a tusk, the lad ran around the enclosure crying then came back and did a lot of "I'm sorry I'll be good now dad" fawning and it was adorable.

OH MAN SEE SEE SEE i wish we knew so much more about how bull elephants interact with herds and families - we've documented bull elephants traveling to matriarchal herds and fake wrestling with male calves, and we've documented bulls protecting orphaned calves, but in god's name i want every in and out about it. everything we know about elephant social interaction is not enough. it's a Thing that introducing old bulls to a population lowers the amount of younger bulls in musth, also known as the state in which bull elephants desire nothing but murder and possibly sex, but - i want to know the precise mechanisms. old bull elephants teaching younger bulls manners renders me VERKLEMPT. i just wanna know every secret elephants have.

this is incredible though. peak teenage boy. groucho has his hands full and i fucking love him for that. get their asses, groucho.

Two days ago I watched the movie version of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” and fell in love. I have to say, however I haven’t read the books except for one glance years ago so I don’t know how good of an adaption the movie is compared to the books, but I do know that I want to read them now.

Offered someone with a food allergy a homemade doughnut hole. They asked if it was made *without* the allergen.

I said yes. Like, dude, why would I offer you something we both know you can’t eat?

The fact that people actually try to offer other people foods that could make them horribly sick/kill them, just, astounds me. Like, it’s not hard to not feed someone something they don’t like, are allergic to, abstain from for religious reasons, etc. why would they do that? If someone doesn't want to eat something no matter the reason, don’t try and feed it to them