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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:11:41 -0400, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
   > "These were the Stones of Annúminas and Amon Sûl. 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   
   > see it, it remained there, until Círdan put it aboard Elrond's ship   
   > when he left. 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 Eressëa in the   
   > vanished West; but the bent sea below covered Númenor for ever."   
   >   
      
   Thanks, Bill. It's a while since I've read Appendix A.   
      
   Interesting that they put a palantír that could see only Eressëa,   
   onto a ship bound for Eressëa. That seems kind of redundant. (Also it   
   was rather hard luck on Círdan.)   
      
   Unless they were planing to use it for NSA-type activities, spying on   
   the citizenry. :-)   
      
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