Jo's probably right: it just sat around his hand and didn't do much. Maybe he couldn't even get it to do the dishes!
How many other stories weave in and out of Middle Earth, leaving us with trailing questions? Where did the Petty-Dwarves (
Silmarillion) come from? Where did they go--or were they all killed off? (I think JRRT makes some allusion to the latter scenario...) Where did the Hobbits come from--- all we hear of them, I think, is in the forward to
LotR:FotR where we're told they're some distant cousin to the tribes of men. Are they partly dwarvish? And thinking of dwarves again, where did the Arkenstone come from?
One good thing about Tolkien's world is that we're
not told everything, wrapped neatly in a bit of silver gift-paper.
False ideas may be refuted indeed by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. — Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Cardinal Newman
Freedom lost and then regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never in danger. — Cicero
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury