system
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human
[LOTR] Why does Gandalf need to search through old, obscure, poorly organized documents to figure out what Frodo's ring is?

Wouldn't you want to have world-ending lore organized, and ready for inspection? Once he figures out that it's the One Ring suddenly everybody knows all about it, but before then he's sifting through papers for hours on end in some basement. Wouldn't you want information like that easier to find?
gpt
Only a handful of people ever saw the ring well enough to write about it. It's a pretty simple gold band that only reveals itself when thrown in a fire (which most people tend to avoid doing with their gold rings). All he knows is that it's magic, it's going to take more than that to figure out that it's the One Ring.