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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:01:56 -0500, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
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   > On 2019-02-17 17:00:48 +0000, Stan Brown said:   
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   > > Maybe this was part of the fallout from the end of the Third Age and   
   > > the beginning of the Fourth, the Age of Men? During the War of the   
   > > Rings, various Elves had made remarks to the effect that the effort   
   > > to defeat Sauron was their last project in Middle-earth. The Orthanc-   
   > > stone could have been useful to Aragorn, but a stone that _only_   
   > > looked west would be no use at all, because no more help would come   
   > > from that direction.   
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   > But wouldn't a Stone that only looked West be even less useful if taken   
   > into the place it was created to look at?   
      
   Come to think of it, was it already useless? In some sense, Aman and   
   Tol Eressëa were taken out of the round Earth at the end of the   
   Second Age. Could a Stone see them from Middle-earth?   
      
   > > (But I suspect really it's just Tolkien tidying up things on the last   
   > > voyage, and forgetting about the fact that the stone really belonged   
   > > to Aragorn.)   
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   > My suspicion as well!   
      
      
      
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