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   From: omeallymd@geemail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   But wouldn't a Stone that only looked West be even less useful if taken   
   into the place it was created to look at?   
      
   >   
   > (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.)   
      
   My suspicion as well!   
      
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