The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien J.R.R
Author:Tolkien, J.R.R. [Tolkien, J.R.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.
âWhat are you saying, Gandalf?â asked Pippin.
âI was just running over some of the Rhymes of Lore in my mind,â answered the wizard. âHobbits, I suppose, have forgotten them, even those that they ever knew.â
âNo, not all,â said Pippin. âAnd we have many of our own, which wouldnât interest you, perhaps. But I have never heard this one. What is it about â the seven stars and seven stones?â
âAbout the palantÃri of the Kings of Old,â said Gandalf.
âAnd what are they?â
âThe name meant that which looks far away. The Orthanc-stone was one.â
âThen it was not made, not madeâ â Pippin hesitated â âby the Enemy?â
âNo,â said Gandalf. âNor by Saruman. It is beyond his art, and beyond Sauronâs too. The palantÃri came from beyond Westernesse, from Eldamar. The Noldor made them. Fëanor himself, maybe, wrought them, in days so long ago that the time cannot be measured in years. But there is nothing that Sauron cannot turn to evil uses. Alas for Saruman! It was his downfall, as I now perceive. Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. Yet he must bear the blame. Fool! to keep it secret, for his own profit. No word did he ever speak of it to any of the Council. We had not yet given thought to the fate of the palantÃri of Gondor in its ruinous wars. By Men they were almost forgotten. Even in Gondor they were a secret known only to a few; in Arnor they were remembered only in a rhyme of lore among the Dúnedain.â
âWhat did the Men of old use them for?â asked Pippin, delighted and astonished at getting answers to so many questions, and wondering how long it would last.
âTo see far off, and to converse in thought with one another,â said Gandalf. âIn that way they long guarded and united the realm of Gondor. They set up Stones at Minas Anor, and at Minas Ithil, and at Orthanc in the ring of Isengard. The chief and master of these was under the Dome of Stars at Osgiliath before its ruin. The three others were far away in the North. In the house of Elrond it is told that they were at Annúminas, and Amon Súl, and Elendilâs Stone was on the Tower Hills that look towards Mithlond in the Gulf of Lune where the grey ships lie.
âEach palantÃr replied to each, but all those in Gondor were ever open to the view of Osgiliath. Now it appears that, as the rock of Orthanc has withstood the storms of time, so there the palantÃr of that tower has remained. But alone it could do nothing but see small images of things far off and days remote. Very useful, no doubt, that was to Saruman; yet it seems that he was not content. Further and further abroad he gazed, until he cast his gaze upon Barad-dûr.
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