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Palantir is the seeing stone used by Sauron to do surveillance in LOTR
by TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
Palantir is the seeing stone used by Sauron to do surveillance in LOTR
- bawolff 7mo agoI've always wondered if they just didn't get the reference or if they are just self-aware that they are evil. In the books its not just that sauron uses it for evil, he also can use it to turn anyone else that uses it evil.
- TurdF3rguson 7mo agoTo me it feels like an inside joke. Like there's one guy out there who pointed out that they're Sauron and they're fucking with him specifically.
- MidnightRider39 7mo agoThe Palantir themselves aren’t evil, they were made by the elves long before the events of LOTR. Essentially they are just a tool. However I heard that Thiels favourite book is the rewrite of LOTR from the perspective of Sauron, where Gandalf and the elves seek to destroy humanity and technology (at least that’s how I understood the gist, haven’t read it)
- compsciphd 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
- oefrha 7mo agoTechnically the Palantiri were a force for good in the hands of Elves and Men, and could still be used for good, like Aragorn using it to challenge Sauron and forcing Sauron’s hand. So that’s a defense to the self-awareness argument. In fact that ambiguity is likely intentional. Btw I always wondered why I was seeing droves of Palantir swag on Stanford campus back in early 2010s. I wouldn’t wear something that has a 50%+ chance of being interpreted as evil.
- akomtu 7mo agoThe AI of Sauron? The actual eye in the underworld and its proxy on Earth?
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