True, but having to make up his mine whether he hated Saruman or Gandalf more doesn't interfere with knowing about the palantir's true identity. It makes sense for him to know what it was, or have some idea of what it was, because he knew it was precious to Saruman and thus, it would probably be precious to Gandalf, and thus, lobbed it out the window in an effort to remove it from Saruman, and try to destroy it, so Gandalf wouldn't get it. (Little did he know that basketball-sized glass globes don't shatter on impact.)
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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