Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5e.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!mat From: mat@hou5e.UUCP (M Terribile) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V8 #17 Message-ID: <679@hou5e.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 10:08:25 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5e.679 Posted: Wed Jul 27 10:08:25 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 21:51:14 EDT References: <3448@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: American Bell ED&D, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 21 One correction. Sauron couldn't actually locate Frodo with the palantir. (Or he didn't try.) Instead, he used the palantir to deceive Denethor, to communicate with Saruman in Orthanc and to survey his armies. I don't believe he could actually locate the Ring, or he would have seen it in Cirith Ungol or somewhere between there and Mount Doom. ------- I believe that Gandalf makes it quite clear that Sauron, if he only looked, would see the Ring moving back into his own land. It is for this reason that Aragorn looks into the Palintir; it is for this reason that Gandalf and Aragorn march hopelessly right to the gates of the Dark Lord, vastly outnumbered and facing a fortress. Saurons attention MUST at all costs be drawn westward. When Frodo put the Ring on, the Lidless Eye was drawn to him immediately. The Palintir could have seen the Ring only if it had ben brought before that stone. Is JRRT really SciFi? Mark Terribile Duke of deNet