palantíri

"Curiosity killed the cat". This is such a common theme which appears in many genres. I must get a closer look at this egg like thing thought John Hurt in Alien. "Don't do it" the audience/viewer/reader thinks but they always do - well there wouldn't be a story otherwise would there. Pippin has...

All the Palantir users could intercept all the message between all the users synchronously, thus...how did Saruman avoid Denethor's message interception? Any idea?

A couple of unexpected references to Feanor. Also Eldamar and Tirion the Fair. The "White Tree and the Golden" must be the Two Trees I suppose!

At first, I thought it was because of his infamous curiosity (like throwing a stone down that well), but I just read it and it said that something was almost compelling him to go get it. Was he hoodwinked by Sauron merely by touching the thing the first time or was it just his own imagination...

I recently was doing some research on the palantiri. I know that there are eight palantiri in middle earth. six of them had a terrible doom. and of the other two only one is in middle earth (soon to be snuck on to the boat to the west by elrond.) and the other in arda so the valar could keep a...

The Palantir of Emyn Beraid was carried over to the West in the last ship by Elrond. It was in the care of Cirdan the Shipwright ... and revealed to Elrond before departure. My query is why did Cirdan not give this stone to Aragorn the rightful heir as happened with the stone used by Saruman in...

The Palantir of Osgiliath is referred to as the "master-stone". What properties did it have that made it greater than the other six Palantiri in Middle-Earth. It's said to be the largest of the seven, so big that a man couldn't carry it. What could this giant Palantir do that the others...

How powerful were the Palantiri? Some sources say that they were seeing-stones, able to view people and locations from great distances. And yet other sources only refer to them as communication devices, able to contact other Palantiri. How powerful were the Palantiri?

I don't know why I'm bringing up this small question on a small point, but it came to mind when watching the movie last night, when a person uses a Palantir, do they have to be touching it, or can you just look into it while it is on a stand. It came to mind that in the books I'd always...

In the Dangweth Pengolod Pengolod says to Ælfwine Dangweth Pengolod; HoME 12 This is undoubtedly a reference to the Palantir so who do you think made the Palantir? Which of the skilled craftsmen could create them? It seems to me that there may have been more then the 7 stones known to M-E...

I was wondering if the Palantiri were ever used again after the War of the Ring? And what happened to the one kept by Cirdan did it ever return to Gondor?

Wonderings about the palantiri It is a known fact that Sauron had the palantir of Minas Ithil, which was a lesser palantir, like those of Isengard and Minas Tirith. Why is it that the palantir never showed the Fellowship (or Sam and Frodo) to him and thus reveal their plans to him? The same...

In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the chapter: The Palantir, it says the Pippen is drawn to the palantir. I will give the quotes in a sec. Anyways, my question is: Is the Palantir like the One Ring, it draws people who have had it, to put it on and stuff? Quotes: The thought of...

As we know,Fëanor made the Silmarils and the Palantiri,and these were his most famous works. The Silmarils were priceless to him and they were the chief cause for the flight of the Noldor.The Palantiri were apparently not as precious to him as the Silmarils,but they were without a doubt very...

What would you look at if you had a Palantir?

I was re-reading "The Palantir" chapter of TTT. It is told that Pippin stole it from sleeping Gandalf. Now it occurred to me: "How can this happen, that a small Hobbit is able to steal a magic object as the Palantir from a mighty Wizard and Istari as Gandalf? Is it possible that Gandalf was...

A passage Harad quoted in the movie forum about Aragorn's struggle against Sauron for control of the Palantir of Orthanc brought a couple of questions to mind. 1) "...and in the end I wrenched the Stone to my own will" - Aragorn. Just how powerful was Aragorn? Saruman had this stone and...

I have been reading around lately, and the thing I now find most fascinating is "the seven stones of seeing", the Palantíri's, made by Fëanor. In the book Unfinished tales I read that the stones are Underestimated by the High council (Elrond, Gandalf, Galadriel...) In this topic I have some...

The Palantiri (the seven seeing stones) were a gift of the Valar to the men of Numenor. The Palantiri are in both The Silmarillion and LOTR. There were seven Palantiri but I have just finished The Silmarillion and I have discivered that there is an eighth Palantiri as some of you may already...