Sean Marchese
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7,271 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Sean Marchese’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Loremaster Sean, take it away.
There must have been a considerable lore concerning the Palantiri preserved in Gondor by the kings and stewards and handed down even after use was no longer made of them.
These stones were an inalienable gift to Elendil and his heirs, to whom alone they belonged by right.
But this does not mean that they could only be used rightfully by one of these heirs.
They could be used lawfully by anyone authorized by either the heir of Anarion or the heir of Isildur, that is, a lawful king of Gondor or Arnor.
Actually, they must normally have been used by such deputies.
Each stone had its own warden, one of whose duties was to survey the stone at regular intervals.
or when commanded or in times of need other persons also were appointed to visit the stones and ministers of the crown concerned with intelligence made regular and special inspections of them reporting the information so gained to the king and council or to the king privately as the matter demanded
In Gondor latterly, as the office of steward rose in importance and became hereditary, providing, as it were, a permanent understudy to the king and an immediate viceroy at need, the command and use of the stones seems mainly to have been in the hands of the stewards, and the traditions concerning their nature and use to have been guarded and transmitted in their house.
Since the stewardship had become hereditary from 1998 onwards, so the authority to use or again to depute the use of the stones was lawfully transmitted in their line and belonged therefore fully to Denethor.
Maybe if he had gotten to it, he might have.
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