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Old 10-25-2002, 12:30 AM   #11
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They were made of magnet. Those statues were used by Elendil and his sailors as a compass on their sea journeys. When they settled down in Gondor, there was no more need for compasses, so statues were thrown away, but still pointed northward as any decent compass would do


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