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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a simple hobbit in possession of a magic ring must be in want of a reason to destroy it. However little known the feelings or views of such a hobbit may be on a wizard first entering the neighborhood, the truth is so well fixed in the mind of such a wizard, that some such reason, however unlikely it might seem, must be devised posthaste.
Fortunately for the wizards of this world, and, indeed, of the next world as well, wizards are subtle and quick to invent excuses. The hobbit in question was a personage of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain digestion, and it took but a few suitably mysterious hand-gestures from the wizard to convince the over-scrupulous hobbit that it was his duty to embark upon an uncomfortable and unprofitable quest with the object of finally destroying this ring without receiving any recompense for such an untoward act.