Ah yes! I've laid my fat fingers on the UT!
The first Elessar was made in Gondolin by Celebrimbor's friend, Enerdhil, and was brought across the sea. Celebrimbor (I LOVE this guy, he seemed to make everything) made the other one for Galadriel because she was his old flame.
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'Where now is the Stone of Earendil? And Enerdhil who made it is gone.'
'They have passed over the Sea,' said Galadriel, 'with almost all fair things else. But must then Middle-earth fade and perish for ever?'
'That is its fate, I deem,' said Celebrimbor. 'But you know that I love you (though you turned to Celeborn of the Trees), and for that love I will do what I can, if haply by my art your grief can be lessened.' But he did not say to Galadriel that he himself was of Gondolin long ago, and a friend of Enerdhil, though his friend in most things outrivalled him. Yet if Enerdhil had not been then Celebrimbor would have been more renowned.
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What a gentleman! Apparently the later Elessar granted instant fertilization of the land you live:
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Wielding the Elessar all things grew fair about Galadriel, until the coming of the Shadow to the Forest. But afterwards when Nenya, chief of the Three, was sent to her by Celebrimbor, she needed it (as she thought no more), and she gave it to Celebrian her daughter, and so it came to Arwen and to Aragorn who was called Elessar
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Okay, that part solved, I still wonder why should Sauron know of this extraordinary stone, and link it to Aragorn's claim to the throne of Gondor.