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   From: le@top.put.com   
      
   In alt.fan.tolkien Bill O'Meally  wrote:   
   > On 2019-02-20 03:54:12 +0000, Stan Brown said:   
   >   
   >> Maybe the Elves figured they had plenty of swords, but only one   
   >> Westward-looking Palant?r, and they just hopped Aragorn wouldn't ask   
   >> for it back? :-)   
   >   
   > Sorta, "Quick, let's stash it on Elrond's ship before anyone knows it's   
   > missing!" :-)   
   >   
   >>   
   >> But seriously, it does seem a little tacky that they wouldn't give   
   >> back a gift that they had just been holding in safekeeping.   
   >   
   > And still, this wasn't the last ship of the Exiles. There may have been   
   > plenty more in ME who might have wanted to make the pilgrimage to look   
   > into the Stone, especially now that the roads would be safer.   
   >   
      
   Celeborn is said to have been the last to remember the Elder Days in   
   Middle-Earth and he left some time during Aragorn's reign...I suppose   
   he could have used the stone to let his wife know he was coming...   
   but I want to dredge Anduin carefully and bring up the Stone of   
   Osgiliath!   
      
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