I Was skimming through UT today, and came across a story that i have not read for some time, and felt this was a great place to ask this question. It involves the story of "The Faithful Stone". The Druedain (Drug)named Aghan left the watch stone with his friends in the woods, and the passage in which I am requiring about is this :
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Then Barach was shaken with fear, for marauding Orcs carried with them brimstone or some other devilish stuff that was quickly inflamed and not quenched with water. Recovering himself he bent his bow, but at that moment, just as the flames leapt up, he saw a drug come runing behind the Orcs. One he felled with a blow of his fist, and the other fled; then he plunged barefoot into the fire, scattering the burning fuel and stamping on the orc flames that ran along the ground. Barach made for the doors but when he had unbarred them and sprang out the drug had disappeared.
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Then Aghan returns and Barach shows him the watch stone. Then this passage
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At length aghan led him to a thicket at the edge of the clearing in which the house stood. there the watch stone was, sitting on a dead orc; but its legs were all blackened and cracked, and one of its feet had split off and lay loose at its side. Aghan looked grieved; but eh said: "ah well! he did what he could, and better that his legs should trample or fire than mine" then he sat down and unlaced his buskins, and barach saw that under them there were bandages on his legs. aghan undid them. Last night I woke before morning came, and i was in pain, and found my legs blistered. then i guessed what had happened
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After all this of this passage, this is what I wonder about
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. Alas! if some power passes from you to a thing that you have made, then you must take a share in its hurts!
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the druedain were of the Atani,as pointed out in the story. But my question is where does that source of power come from? (the watch stone) Was there ever any reference of the men of Gondor or any other race of men using or replicating this kind of power? They were not evil, so the power is not of Morgoth, nor is it evil. How do they pass power of theirs into a stone and contrive it to do as it did in the above passage? Just wondering.
~Namarie~ [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]