Alan (Alan S.)
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2,242 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Alan (Alan S.)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His trust was not entirely unjustified.
Sauron failed to dominate him and could only influence him by deceits.
Probably he did not at first look towards Mordor, but was content with such far views as the stone would afford, hence his surprising knowledge of events far off.
Whether he ever thus made contact with the Orthanc stone and Sauron is not told.
Probably he did, and did so with profit to himself.
Sauron could not break in on these conferences.
Only the surveyor using the master stone of Osgiliath could eavesdrop.
While two of the other stones were in response, the third would find them both blank.
That's interesting, isn't it?
Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's the difference between the car having a lot of highway miles and tracking it every weekend.
You know, I mean, it's, it's, you're, you're talking about general wear versus the breaking strength.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I'm sorry, I'm always going to bring cars into it.
The footnote here explains that using a stone was a mental strain, especially, and I thought this was really interesting on men of later days, not trained to the task and,
And that it was Denethor's use of the stone that was something that contributed to his grimness.
And even though the footnote just says contributed to his grimness, I have to say, and it probably also contributed to the aging that Gandalf had observed.
And it suggests to me that she loved him in return.
His strain, his emotional wearing down was directly impacting her.
She cared about him.
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