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Interesting topic. I also don't have any facts to back up what I say, but I think meteors are the stuff of legends and stories everywhere. Their very nature, as objects seemingly sent from God out of the sky, would lend itself towards the mythic. Whether Tolkien was inspired by the Black Stone at Kaaba, or from some other legend (a Scandinavian one?) who can say? But the stone of Erech that Inziladun mentioned is more like to stone of Kaaba...
And that would be quite something if Orthanc was made of heavenly rock...what a massive meteor that would be!
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