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		| Originally posted by Man-of-the-Wold: <STRONG>  The big mystery is how it survived the War of the Last Alliance and the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, unless left in Rivendell with the Sceptre of Annuminas.</STRONG>
 |  I thought up an answer, in addition to its having been safeguarded in Rivendell.  That is that it was sort of a token of the Crowned Prince.  So, potentially, it was worn by Elendur and recovered from his body.
		 
				__________________The hoes unrecked in the fields were flung, __ and fallen ladders in the long grass lay __ of the lush orchards; every tree there turned __ its tangled head and eyed them secretly, __ and the ears listened of the nodding grasses; __ though noontide glowed on land and leaf, __ their limbs were chilled.
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