P365, Day 9 - Not a palantir

[grundyscribbling]

Alas, none of my attempts at photos on the road today came out well. Have a closeup of a marble instead. (Now that I'm not in a hotel room, there's a bit more scope for last-minute photos.)

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Comments

[oloriel]

Are you sure it's not a Palantír? The rarely mentioned P-II pocket model that Feanor made for the road to Middle-earth?

[grundyscribbling]

Pretty sure, although everyone seems to think otherwise. So...maybe?

[ysilme]

The rarely mentioned P-II pocket model that Feanor made for the road to Middle-earth?
*dies* ♥

[heartofoshun]

Oh, nice! I made an icon years ago using a marble as a palentir. I wish I knew where it is.

OMG! Found it--B2MeM 2012.



I adore the idea!

[grundyscribbling]

Oooh, shiny! :)

[bunn]

I'm definitely taking that as one of the handy pocket-sized minipalantirs that Curufin made in middle-earth. The ones with a firewall, password protection & antivirus ;-)

[grundyscribbling]

You're telling me Curufin pioneered anti-virus?

[sulien]

Ooooohhhhh! If you ever decide to make glass beads with that color scheme and appear to have depth like that, I call first dibs to buy them! I have the fine silver wire, but those would be worth buying some good yellow-gold filled wire to go with.

And I agree with everyone else, that's a Pocket Palantir. :) bunn's comment made me snort coffee out of my nose, thank gods I take mine milky these days.

[grundyscribbling]

I'll let you know if I do, but don't hold your breath - that was flame-working, and I mostly do blowing!

:)

[ysilme]

(I need an "oooh - shiny!" icon!)
I never considered marbles to be mini-palantíri before, although reading the comments above I'm totally convinced now. But this specimen rather looks to me like a tiny planet with a very interesting supercontinent.

[grundyscribbling]

That pocket palantir theory is very convincing! :)
(I love your icon, btw!)

[ysilme]

Thanks! I got it by way of sylvanwitch. She and I share the love for naval fiction in general and this very movie in particular, so we often talked about it. I also can't imagine anybody who'd fit the description "geek" better than Stephen Maturin. *g*