Alan (Alan S.)
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2,242 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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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And the point, though, is that when we talk about this deputed authority or this legitimate users thing, the point is that Saruman and Sauron, for as powerful as they are, the fact that they're Maiar, they don't have the correct lineage and they don't have the legitimate or inherited authority to use the stones.
So they're going to work...
Like you said, either it's going to be more strenuous or they're going to be more limited in their abilities.
In some way, they're going to be lesser.
But then we just move on from that straight away to how it impacted both of them, huh?
Yeah.
At the same time, Denethor, on the other hand, his sort of natural opposition to Sauron remained.
He was still steadfast.
This is a guy we talked about last week as masterful, wise, learned, strong-willed, confident, dauntless, all these great adjectives.
Right.
So Sauron's not able to dominate him.
Instead, he has to trick him, right?
He has to use the Palantiri, which cannot show false images, but he has to show them in such a way, you know, lacking context so that Denethor ends up falling into total despair, thinking that this defeat, his defeat is inevitable at the hands of Sauron.
So what if it's straining to him?
He doesn't care.
Right.
Infinite supplies of energy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Other people have been killed by the Black Breath, right?
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