Alan S.

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The Prancing Pony Podcast · 422 – Who Are You? · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, not only do we appreciate all that you do for the show and for our community, we appreciate you joining us today to talk about Brie Crossroads and this incredible artist exhibition.

So best of luck on both of those.

Thanks for joining us.

Looking forward to it.

Here we go.

The Palantiri were no doubt never matters of common use or common knowledge, even in Numenor.

In Middle-earth, they were kept in guarded rooms, high and strong towers.

Only kings and rulers and their appointed wardens had access to them.

And they were never consulted nor exhibited publicly.

But until the passing of the kings, they were not sinister secrets.

Their use involved no peril, and no king or other person authorized to survey them would have hesitated to reveal the source of his knowledge of the deeds or opinions of distant rulers if obtained through the stones.

After the days of the kings and the loss of Minas Ithil, there is no further mention of their open and official use.

There was no answering stone left in the north after the shipwreck of Arvidwi, last king, in the year 1975.

In 2002, the Ithil stone was lost.

There then remained only the Anor stone in Minas Tirith and the Orthanc stone.

Two things contributed then to the neglect of the stones and their passing out of the general memory of the people.

The first was ignorance of what had happened to the Ithil stone.

It was reasonably assumed that it was destroyed by the defenders before Minas Ithil was captured and sacked, but it was clearly possible that it had been seized and had come into the possession of Sauron, and some of the wiser and more far-seeing may have considered this.

It would appear that they did so, and realized that the stone would be of little use to him for the damage of Gondor, unless it made contact with another stone that was in accord with it.

It was for this reason, it may be supposed, that the Anor Stone, about which all the records of the stewards are silent until the War of the Ring, was kept as a closely guarded secret, accessible only to the ruling stewards, and never by them used, it seems, until Denethor II.

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