Lord of the Rings Series -- Amazon

The one thing that might really bother me at RoP is if Gandalf is meteor man (or if they try to shoehorn him some other way). As I mentioned before, Gandalf did not a arrive until well into the TA. If they try to shoehorn him in, it means he will be at least aware of the major events at the end of the SA and he won't have to do research to determine that Bilbo possessed the One Ring. As it stands, Gandalf's lack of suspicion here is already somewhat dicey even in canon - surely he would have time to do a little light reading given he was on ME for thousands of years before Sauron's final defeat. He knew about Gollum and that the ring had extended his life far beyond what was normal (and suspected the same of Bilbo)
yeah in the canon of films and the books ( which I'm reading again) he does kind faff about when it comes to the ring bilbo has- I mean he knows what is did to gollum, and bilbo has it for 80 years and does not age and yet Gandalf just kinda leaves it with him and never really has any urgency he even kinda jokes with bilbo about using it at his party to disappear.