Posted: March 20, 2000 at 11:50:18: by Michael Martinez
: : But surely the importance of the palantir would have meant
: : that the attempt would have been worth it? look how useful it
: : was for sauron in the war of the ring. Without that, wouldn't
: : it have been easier for Gondor? the kings were far sighted
: : men: perhaps they would have seen this?: : Good argument though:) : At the time the identity of the nazgul was uncertain to the
: leaders of Gondor and Sauron was not known to have arisen
: again. Would the recovery of an artifact (however useful) be
: worth the potential ruin of the army and the state? The
: leaders of Gondor, with a few exeptions, were pragmatists
: unlikely to do a "Noldor and the Silmarils" excursion for the
: sake of one of the Palantiri. It might have been doubtful to
: Earnur whether the enemy would be able to make effective use of
: the Palantir, as it was made for the use of elves in the first
: place. Given the restrictions on who could use the Palantiri, the Dunedain may have decided that it was not a problem anyway, and that the future might provide a better opportunity to recover the palantir, which would be virtually useless in the hands of the the unauthorized.
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