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   From: le@top.put.com   
      
   In alt.fan.tolkien Bill O'Meally  wrote:   
   > On 2019-02-19 04:46:16 +0000, Bill O'Meally said:   
   >   
   >> On 2019-02-18 23:41:13 +0000, Fred Smith said:   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> IDHTBIFOMATM, but I seem to recall that Elendil (or Gil Galad?)   
   >>> would look into this stone to see Numenor (and/or Tol Eressa).   
   >>> Maybe it only showed him these places as they were before the   
   >>> world was changed.   
   >>   
   >> They could apparently look across both time and space. In describing   
   >> the Palat?ri to Pippin, Gandalf expresses his heart's desire to look   
   >> across the sea and time to Tirion and watch F?anor at work.   
   >>   
   >>> Also, wasn't there some super dupa master stone   
   >>> somewhere in the West (and I don't mean the one in Osgiliath)?   
   >>> There's an essay somewhere on Palantiri that would probably tell.   
   >>   
   >> You are referring to the essay _The Palant?ri_ in _Unfinished Tales_. I   
   >> don't recall reading of any master stone in the West.   
   >   
   > Ah, but you were right Fred. In footnote 16 in the essay, it mentions   
   > the Master Stone on the Tower of Avall?n? upon Eress?a. That appears to   
   > be its only mention that I can see. Good call!   
      
   (to some extent this contradicts the significance given   
   to the Stone of Osgiliath).   
      
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