[The Saucepan Man]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Good gravy!!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> If you are going to get upset about something, at least make it something that there is a smidge of evidence to support. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>We're swimming against the tide here, HC. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Now I remember somewhere I wrote that I thought there might not be the palantír in there at all. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>In one of the trailers that I have seen, Merry is telling Pippin that Sauron believes him to be the Ringbearer. Which suggests to me that Pippin and the Palantir are in RotK.<P>But you are right. I does takes away what (scant) justification there was for having Frodo seen with the Ring in Osgiliath en route to Minas Tirith.