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Old 08-24-2005, 03:17 PM   #23
drigel
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drigel has just left Hobbiton.
Im also a closet space physicist
I do find it interesting that all those beautifull gravitational lensing pictures are circular in nature, as is a palantir. I wonder if one looked back that far in time - to the original crafting of the palantiri, what one would see. Would one see Feanor bent over a forge, like a glass blower rolling glass, or would one see him with hammer and chisel in hand, skillfully coaxing facets off the motherstone like a gem cutter..?

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One Palantir was kept by the Elves on the shores of Middle-earth - was this to look to Valinor?
The stone I think looked towards Valinor, but mabye only a glimpse of Tol Eressėa..?..

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Appendix A: The only Stone left in the North was the one in the Tower on Emyn Beraid that looks towards the Gulf of Lune. That was guarded by the Elves, and though we never knew it, it remained there, until Cirdan put it aboard Elrond's ship when he left (I, 74, 154). But we are told that it was unlike the others and not in accord with them; it looked only to the Sea. Elendil set it there so that he could look back with "straight sight" and see Eressea in the vanished West; but the bent seas below covered Numenor for ever'.
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