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From: mat@hou5e.UUCP (M Terribile)
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V8 #17
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 10:08:25 EDT
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	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.  
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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