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For questions about magical seeing stones called "palantíri" from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books. The palantíri, also known as the Seeing Stones, are objects used for both communication and as a means of seeing events in other parts of the world. Always use in conjunction with the [tolkiens-legendarium] tag.
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Which King took possession of the Stone of Orthanc?
This took some working out, but the answer is given in note 18 to The Palantiri (Unfinished Tales again). … The greater palantiri could look much further than the lesser; for the
lesser the 'proper distance' was of the order of five hundred miles,
as between the Orthanc-stone and that of Anor. …