Palantiri Lawn Ornament - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Boo Radley · 08-08-2009, 06:24 PM

So, I'm cooking supper this evening and as I looked out the window, I noticed the neighbors chrome-surface mirror ball in the back yard (You know what I'm talking about, right?).
And I thought, "That looks like a Palantiri... who would use one of them as a lawn ornament?" and immediately figured Tom Bombadil would.

Just thought I'd share that.

Nessa Telrunya · 08-08-2009, 06:26 PM

Perhaps old Tom just wants whoever may be watching to hear his hit songs.

After all, Old Man Willow probably makes for a terrible audience.

Boo Radley · 08-08-2009, 09:18 PM

True. And Tom isn't a person who lets an objects importance color his opinion of it. Probably would use Galadriel's Mirror for a bird bath.

Nessa Telrunya · 08-09-2009, 06:50 AM

That's so easy to visualize it's scary.

Then again, I'm sure an ordinary hobbit would do the same, only they wouldn't know the importance, just how much their garden needs sprucing up.

Bêthberry · 08-09-2009, 07:54 PM

Well, at least it isn't dwarven lawn ornaments. I don't think Tom would touch those.

Boo Radley · 08-10-2009, 06:06 PM

Would he confuse them with garden gnomes?

Orofarne · 05-09-2010, 06:31 PM

I'm new here, but I think that yes he most certainly would! By the by, I've noticed the Palantir phenomena too, is Feanor out there making duplicate seeing stones for people to stick in their lawns or something like that? Just a thought...
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LadyBrooke · 07-13-2010, 03:05 AM

You see as a condition of his release from Mandos he had to agree to make the Maiar and Valar Palantiri to watch the lives of today's mortal since they're not allowed to visit us any more. Pretty soon word spread to all of the elves and now Feanor runs a thriving business manufacturing lawn ornaments that allow elves to spy on the owners.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 07-13-2010, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by LadyBrooke

You see as a condition of his release from Mandos he had to agree to make the Maiar and Valar Palantiri to watch the lives of today's mortal since they're not allowed to visit us any more. Pretty soon word spread to all of the elves and now Feanor runs a thriving business manufacturing lawn ornaments that allow elves to spy on the owners.

Good Soap!

So it's not the government spying on us after all. I knew I shouldn't have trusted those elves!

LadyBrooke · 07-13-2010, 11:14 PM

You'll be fine as long as you don't have any bright, shiny jewelery in your house.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 07-13-2010, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by LadyBrooke

You'll be fine as long as you don't have any bright, shiny jewelery in your house.

Funny that I should be wearing my bright, shiny jewellery. . . on a chain around my neck.

Lindale · 07-14-2010, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Funny that I should be wearing my bright, shiny jewellery. . . on a chain around my neck.

Actually I'm wearing it as a crown

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 07-16-2010, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Lindale

Actually I'm wearing it as a crown

Darn.

08-08-2009, 06:24 PM	#1
Boo Radley Wight Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio. Believe it or not. Posts: 146	Palantiri Lawn Ornament So, I'm cooking supper this evening and as I looked out the window, I noticed the neighbors chrome-surface mirror ball in the back yard (You know what I'm talking about, right?). And I thought, "That looks like a Palantiri... who would use one of them as a lawn ornament?" and immediately figured Tom Bombadil would. Just thought I'd share that. __________________ Don't believe everything you read on the interwebs. That's how World War 1 got started!

08-08-2009, 06:26 PM	#2
Nessa Telrunya Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: In a paper bag Posts: 396	Perhaps old Tom just wants whoever may be watching to hear his hit songs. After all, Old Man Willow probably makes for a terrible audience. __________________ Joined together wrote our names upon the page Seven times alliance our loyalties we gave

08-08-2009, 09:18 PM	#3
Boo Radley Wight Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio. Believe it or not. Posts: 146	True. And Tom isn't a person who lets an objects importance color his opinion of it. Probably would use Galadriel's Mirror for a bird bath. __________________ Don't believe everything you read on the interwebs. That's how World War 1 got started!

08-09-2009, 06:50 AM	#4
Nessa Telrunya Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: In a paper bag Posts: 396	That's so easy to visualize it's scary. Then again, I'm sure an ordinary hobbit would do the same, only they wouldn't know the importance, just how much their garden needs sprucing up. __________________ Joined together wrote our names upon the page Seven times alliance our loyalties we gave

08-09-2009, 07:54 PM	#5
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,046	Well, at least it isn't dwarven lawn ornaments. I don't think Tom would touch those. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

08-10-2009, 06:06 PM	#6
Boo Radley Wight Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio. Believe it or not. Posts: 146	Would he confuse them with garden gnomes? __________________ Don't believe everything you read on the interwebs. That's how World War 1 got started!

05-09-2010, 06:31 PM	#7
Orofarne Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Dancing alone in the madness Posts: 19	Lawn ornaments I'm new here, but I think that yes he most certainly would! By the by, I've noticed the Palantir phenomena too, is Feanor out there making duplicate seeing stones for people to stick in their lawns or something like that? Just a thought... __________________ Look my friends, here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an Elven princeling in!

07-13-2010, 03:05 AM	#8
LadyBrooke Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: The modern day version of Edoras: horses, wind, rolling plains =) Posts: 507	You see as a condition of his release from Mandos he had to agree to make the Maiar and Valar Palantiri to watch the lives of today's mortal since they're not allowed to visit us any more. Pretty soon word spread to all of the elves and now Feanor runs a thriving business manufacturing lawn ornaments that allow elves to spy on the owners. __________________ Busy, Busy, Busy...hoping for more free time soon.

07-13-2010, 11:14 PM	#10
LadyBrooke Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: The modern day version of Edoras: horses, wind, rolling plains =) Posts: 507	You'll be fine as long as you don't have any bright, shiny jewelery in your house. __________________ Busy, Busy, Busy...hoping for more free time soon.