Filippo Palagi, one of the three friends, along with Nicola Malloggi and Edoardo Poggi, says they weren’t particularly optimistic. Like Mohr, they assumed the ring was gone for good.
But hoping to lift Mohr’s spirits, the three men conjured up a legend of their own: they would find the golden ring and return it to its rightful owner in a Lord of the Rings-style quest — an epic journey that, they joked, would take more than a thousand years.
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