Alan S.
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The second reason was the decay of Gondor and the waning of interest in or knowledge of ancient history among all but a few even of the high men of the realm, except insofar as it concerned their genealogies, their descent and kinship.
Gondor, after the kings, declined into a middle age of fading knowledge and simpler skills.
That's right.
And Christopher explains that this section of Unfinished Tales is derived from writings associated with this revision.
So with that as background, let's go ahead and dive in.
And the first thing we're told right off the top is that the existence and use of the stones were never common knowledge.
No, and they're not used publicly.
It's not like there are festivals where like, hey, we're going to bring out all the Palantiri.
Come see the seeing stones, you know.
They're not even displayed in public, but they are in secure locations with access limited to the very highest of the high men.
But the interesting thing is that even though they were secret, it doesn't mean they were
Yeah, I mean, when they're having a press conference, they're not going to tell the news agencies that they got the information.
Right, exactly.
Right.
And then there's a footnote here, by the way, that points out the stones were doubtless used in Third Age 1944 concerning the succession to the crown.
And to shed a little light on what that footnote is telling you, that's, of course, the aftermath of the disaster of the Maranon.
That's when King Ondaher and both of his sons, Artemir and Fatimir, were killed by the Wainriders.
That's right.
And so that's the succession to the crown the footnote's talking about.
The footnote also says that in Third Age 1973, not even 30 years later, when Gondor received messages from the last shreds of Arnor, it was via the stones.
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