I've just run into this, an article about the nature of the Ring, focussing on the final confrontation of Frodo and Gollum:

‘Down, down!’ [Frodo] gasped, clutching his hand to his breast, so that beneath the cover of his leather shirt he clasped the Ring. ‘Down you creeping thing, and out of my path! Your time is at an end. You cannot betray me or slay me now.’

Then suddenly, as before under the eaves of the Emyn Muil, Sam saw these two rivals with other vision. A crouching shape, scarcely more than the shadow of a living thing, a creature now wholly ruined and defeated, yet filled with a hideous lust and rage; and before it stood stern, untouchable now by pity, a figure robed in white, but at its breast it held a wheel of fire. Out of the fire there spoke a commanding voice.

‘Begone, and trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom.’
The crouching shape backed away, terror in its blinking eyes, and yet at the same time insatiable desire.

Then the vision passed and Sam saw Frodo standing, hand on breast, his breath coming in great gasps, and Gollum at his feet, resting on his knees with his wide-splayed hands upon the ground.

Do you know, in all my readings of the book, I'd never registered that that's the Ring talking. As the article points out, it's not the first time - 'Verily I come, I come to you', anyone?

I was also intrigued by this one, which proposes that the rhyme of the Rings of Power - 'Three Rings for the Elven-kings' etc - wasn't written until the Last Alliance was formed, and further, that the poet (whoever that was) apparently thought the Three were given to Gil-Galad (correct), Oropher of Eryn Galen, and Amdir of Lorien. (Note that the couplet in the Black Speech - 'One Ring to rule them all' - was penned by Sauron, and spoken by him when he first donned the One, but there's no reason to think the rest of the rhyme was his, too)

Fandom is fun, in't it? Particularly when you have a body of work as information-rich as the Legendarium, where you pretty much can accurately deduce 'the truth' about, well, anything.

(Oh yeah, I have a website about that. And my old offer still stands - if you have a character, place, or event, and want me to write a Deep Places about them, I'll always take a stab at it)

hS