Also, one can find something like the Palantir in Barbara Hambly's Silent Tower series.
And, this isn't literature, but I think it still counts, I have a horse named Shadowfax, my dad used to have a dog named Frodo, and I know someone else with a pedigreed standard poodle, part of whose registered name is Aragorn. She calls him Strider. How cool is that? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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