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   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Stan Brown  schrieb:   
      
   > And I should have remembered that the Palantír could look across time   
   > as well as space, as you (or someone else) pointed out in another   
   > article. In LotR III 11, "The Palantír", Gandalf says to Pippin:   
   >   
   > "Have I not felt it? Even now my heart desires to test my will upon   
   > it, to see if I could not wrench it from him and turn it where I   
   > would--to look across the wide seas of water and of time to Tirion   
   > the Fair, and perceive the unimaginable hand and mind of Fëanor at   
   > their work, while both the White Tree and the Golden were in flower!"   
      
   So, why didn't Gandalf use the Stone of Emyn Beraid?   
      
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