Alan S.
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first heard Jul 2026
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Is that a mistake completely, or is it just a mistake in hindsight?
I mean, because clearly it's a mistake in hindsight.
Right, clearly a mistake in hindsight.
And if they'd known that, then they would have to know that Sauron has the Ithil Stone, which means they would have to know how dangerous they are.
I don't know.
Maybe that's what they were thinking.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I mean, out of the original seven, you know that three are gone.
One has never been in network.
And so, you know, you know that there's one at Orthanc, one at Minas Ithil, or one at Minas Andor, and one that maybe Sauron has.
They could have been used.
Why would I plan against that?
I mean.
Sorry, White Council.
You should have known better.
All right.
It is evident that at the time of the War of the Ring, the Council had not long become aware of the doubt concerning the fate of the Ithil Stone, and failed, understandably, even in such persons as Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf, under the weight of their cares, to appreciate its significance, to consider what might be the result if Sauron became possessed of one of the stones, and anyone else should then make use of another.
It needed the demonstration on Dol Baran of the effects of the Orthanc Stone on Peregrin to reveal suddenly that the link between Isengard and Barad-dûr, seen to exist after it was discovered that forces of Isengard had been joined with others directed by Sauron in the attack on the Fellowship at Parth Galan, was in fact the Orthanc Stone and one other Palantir.
In his talk to Peregrine as they rode on Shadowfax from Dol Baran, Gandalf's immediate object was to give the hobbit some idea of the history of the Palantiri, so that he might begin to realize the ancientry, dignity, and power of things that he had presumed to meddle with.
He was not concerned to exhibit his own processes of discovery and deduction, except in its last point, to explain how Sauron came to have control of them, so that they were perilous for anyone, however exalted, to use.
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