>brings home/buys piles of history books>"what's this about a ring, a dark lord, and the end of the world">hey Sauron, he's who made all those orcs I saw once>maybe this all had something to do with the ring in my pocket>I seem to go to some sort of shadow world when I wear it>I'll pretend I didn't read that *lets evil fester in Middle Earth for 60 more years*
>>221855483This was explained in depth in the books: basically there were many magical rings around and finding one that made you invisible wasn't all that rare.It wasn't until Gandalf saw the ring that he put 2 and 2 together. Remember that Bilbo never tells Gandalf he found the ring or what kind of ring it was.