In a message dated 98-04-13 23:23:04 EDT, you write:

<< >  It's established pretty explicitly in LOTR that the Ring doesn't really
 >  react to heat.  It WOULDN'T feel hot when he picked it up.
 
 The Ring DOES react to heat; it just takes a lot more than for a ordinary
 ring. When it was cut from Saurons hand, Isildur noted that it was hot to the
 touch.
    >>
Now are we talking, "Oh, I dropped it in the campfire heat?" or "Oh, I dropped
it in Mt. Doom heat?"  It was said in FOTR that the ring could be melted by
one of the acient dragons, and not just the volcano after all....

Sorry, just had to toss that in!  

BGlanders