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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
However they may have used Osanwe Kenta, a kind of elvish telepathy. It isn't like picking up a telephone - communication depends on the skill and degree of affinity of the communicants as well as distance. I can't find a suitable link and unfortunately it is an essay that hasn't been published in a widely available format.
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Hm. Something along these lines?
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Often...[Celeborn, Galadriel, and Elrond] would sit together under the stars, recalling the ages that were gone and all their joys and labours in the world, or holding council, concerning the days to come. If any wanderer had chanced to pass, little would he have seen or heard, and it would have seemed to him only that he saw grey figures, carved in stone, memorials of forgotten things now lost in unpeopled lands. For they did not move or speak with mouth, looking from mind to mind; and only their shining eyes stirred as their thoughts went to and fro.
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ROTK Many Partings (emphasis added)
An interesting thought. Perhaps Gildor or one of his people was able to fire a message to Elrond that way. After all, they were Noldor, and could be said to have had an 'affinity' with those in Rivendell.