LotR -- Book 5 - Chapter 02 - The Passing of the Grey Company

[davem]

Originally Posted by Guinevere

Halbarad, too, does what he feels to be his duty, even if it may cost his life:

You remind me of a point I wanted to bring up here: Habarad does die on the Fields of Pelennor - was this an example of foresight, or simply pessimism that proved true? If it was the former then it shows amazing courage to go forward with Aragorn. I suspect this was a case of foresight, as why else would Tolkien put that scene in?

Something which makes me wonder, is the stone of Erech: a globe that has the heighth of a man, and has been brought from Númenor and set up by Isildur himself.. Surely there must have been a reason to take this heavy thing aboard a ship when fleeing from disaster? It must have had special power, I guess. And did that power have anything to do with the effect of the oath they swore upon that stone?

I seem to remember from HoMe that the Stone of Erech was originally to be a Palantir...