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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
Perhaps the Elessar? Three stories of its origin (if my memory serves me right), and one of them involves the making of a second stone by Celebrimbor, hence the two stones.
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YES! That's
well good enough. *High Five*
There's a discrepancy in UT about the story, where text reads words to the effect "and not even the wise know which is true".
Under one, Olorin (and his name is used that way, to imply, perhaps, some pre-Istari visit to Middle Earth), where he met with Galadriel in Amon Lanc (before it was Dol Guldur) and he bore her what was implied to be that stone crafted by a smith of Gondolin, Enerdhil, gifted to Idril, then to Earendil, and borne unto the uttermost west. Apparently, Gandalf bore it back to give to Galadriel, to comfort her during her labours. In that story, for a time, the stone did make the Elven harbour in Beleriand 'Valinor-ish' (but in the Silmarillion, this is attributed to the presence of the Silmaril). In the second story, Celebrimbor, smitten by Galadriel, makes the Elessar, as a gift for her labours, before the Mirdain make The Three. In this story, the stone does not have as much joo joo (and text notes that was due to Melkor's influence, from The Void, where he affected the Sun, and so, it was not 'as new' as of old, limiting the Elessar's potency).
"Not Two Stories, but Three"
1. As told in UT, with two renditions, without the reconciliation with
2. The third part of the two stories, in The Silmarillion--where we're given the idea that it was The Silmaril that greened the Elven Harbour, not the Elessar, and so, a means to resolve story discrepancies. AND - Aragorn's Elessar, were it that crafted by Enerdhil--would have greened the environs around Minas Tirith far more fully than his Elessar apparently did.....
So--unusual for Tolkien--TWO in text stories, with a deliberate variation "not even the wise know" and the third 'story' --ours-- which is the interpretations of the Tomes and what they reveal out-of-text/story