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08-17-2009, 06:44 AM
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 You apparently have a palantir of your own with which to find the answer within the works. I have not expected this to go this quickly... thread is yours!
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08-18-2009, 01:36 PM
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Apparently Feanor had his apprentices make some small-scale models in imitation of the stones he made himself. Don't ask me how they survived all the cataclysms of the intervening ages, but occasionally they're still sold as marbles at car-boot sales - that's where I got mine. Works perfectly, but it hurts your eyes trying to read a book in it. Speaking of books: Which person of royalty was famous for making books with his own hands?
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08-19-2009, 05:55 AM
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Hmm...
The only that I can come up with right now is Merry. The first part - he was "royalty" I guess since he was the Master of Buckland after all, and part of the ruling house of Buckland. The second part - from all the people that I could think of he is the only one that made several books, all other "royalties" wrote just one for example Elendil with the Akallabêth. Merry at least wrote the Herblore of the Shire, Old Words and Names in the Shire, the Reckoning of Years and contributed to the Tale of Years.
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08-19-2009, 02:38 PM
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Nice thought about Merry, but sorry, no. You've got to think of somebody way more exalted - I do mean royalty as in 'a house of kings'.
Elendil, although he wrote only that one book (that we know of), is warmer.
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08-23-2009, 06:06 AM
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Ha-ha, I found it! Thing is I was concetrating on books that we know more of, such as those written by Merry, but I realised that it's not really necessary to know what the books were exactly.
As such, the answer seems to be Tar-Elendil (so that's why Elendil was so "warm"  ), of whom the following is said in the UT, The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor:Quote:
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08-23-2009, 06:53 AM
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See? You don't need a palantír after all! Tar-Elendil it is. Take it away!
(Btw, you realize we two have been playing ping-pong with this thread for over a month now? I wonder where everybody else is - hopefully we haven't scared them away?!  )
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08-24-2009, 03:46 AM
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Yes, you're right about the ping-pong part, but I used to have that with Legate a lot, after a while others will join in, it's always like that.
Who grabbed her spouse by the beard? I was trying to go with "its spouse" but I realised it would be pointless.
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