Alan S.
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first heard Jul 2026
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That's right.
Now, even with knowledge of the lore, though, the knowledge about that particular stone, the Stone of Minas Anor, that knowledge had disappeared.
What happened to it, where it was, was just simply not part of any of the records of the stewards.
Now, he makes some assumptions.
The first one is a very reasonable one.
The city had never been captured, and neither had Orthanc, so the stones were probably still there.
That's interesting.
I mean, maybe it's been buried in a box next to the Tomb of Elendil on top of the Halifurion.
Sure.
You just never know.
Why not?
That is an interesting line, of course, because we do know that drowned deep is where many of them are.
three of them right two of them at the bottom of the bay of for a hill and one at the bottom of the anduin or if it's rolled out to sea somehow which again i come back to that being the master stone too heavy yeah and we're finding out next week that the larger ones are too much for one man to lift on their own so that's right yeah that's gonna be a pretty big bit of pretty big rock yeah all right well we've got one more reading here today and i'm gonna let you take it away alan thank you sir
Gandalf should have been reported as saying that he did not think that Denethor had presumed to use it until his wisdom failed.
He could not state it as a known fact, for when and why Denethor had dared to use the stone was and remains a matter of conjecture.
Gandalf might well think as he did on the matter, but it is probable, considering Denethor and what is said about him, that he began to use the Anor stone many years before 3019.
and earlier than Sodom and ventured, or thought it useful, to use the stone of Orthanc.
Denethor succeeded to the stewardship in 2984, being then 54 years old, a masterful man, both wise and learned beyond the measure of those days, and strong-willed, confident in his own powers, and dauntless.
His grimness was first observable to others after his wife Phinduilas died in 2988.
But it seems fairly plain that he had at once turned to the stone as soon as he came to power, having long studied the matter of the Palantiri and the traditions regarding them and their use, preserved in the special archives of the stewards, available beside the ruling steward only to his heir.
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