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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/eyepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The Palantír
It is the element of mystery that makes us so curious isn't it? If Tolkien had specified that it glowed because Sauron was searching and calling to Saruman then we would all have been satisfied. But then Tolkien could just as well have said that it was the nature of the stone that made it glow and hence Pippin was drawn to it. Tolkien could have said absolutely ANYTHING and we would have loved it. But he didn't. The hounds that did not bay. THAT is what ignites our curiousity.
All that didn't really have anything to do with anything. Personally though, I think it was the power of the stone that sensed the Pippin's desire and glowed more enigmatically than ever, drawing Pippin towards it.
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