#palantir

[illustratus]

[oldschoolfrp]

Saruman the White ponders his palantír. "You are the trusted apprentice to one of the greatest Wizards in all Middle-earth" in A Spy in Isengard (Angus McBride cover art for Middle-earth Quest gamebook #1 by Terry K Amthor, Iron Crown Enterprises, 1988). McBride has been memed more than once.

[slicedblackolives]

look ma the most evil tech company in the world that has made “we’re evil” their company policy to the extent they’ve named themselves after a fantasy villain’s surveillance tools is supporting their clients the only democracy in the middle east <3

[purpleweredragon]

[autistook]

MARCH 5TH

Pippin steals the Palantír, looks into it, revealing himself to Sauron

[effervescentdragon]

hey (with the intention of looking into the palantir)

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

[overlord-of-fantasy]

He forges his own path

Nerdanel, about to leave the house with Feanor: Don’t spend all day watching cats on the Palantir, okay? Curufin: I FORGE MY OWN PATH!!

[azspot]

REPUBLICAN REP. MIKE Gallagher, who led the charge on a bill that could effectively ban TikTok within the country — on the basis that China can “surveil its users” — plans to take up a post with the American surveillance company and defense contractor Palantir, Forbes reported.

[allbycharles]

What happens when Feanor visits Minas Tirith:

Aragorn: You see this palantir now shows only hands of an old man on fire...its a tragic story...it shows the ending of choosing your glory over your own children and....

Feanor: Oh? Did the screen freeze?

Aragorn: ???

Feanor: -pics the palantir up and shakes it-

Feanor: You just have to restart it, no biggie

Aragorn: ITS A ....ITS A TRAGIC STORY

Feanor: nah dude, just shake it and if this does not help...ctrl+alt+del okay?

[captain-casual]

[tweetingukpolitics]

[madeupfromglue]

apple vision pro

[welcometolotr]

It is told that Curufinwë son of Curufinwë crafted for his brother a magnificent limb of metal to replace that which Fingon their cousin had rent in order to save him. Yet no lesser was the second of his cunning prosthetics: a palantír, small enough to be held between two fingers, a Stone to See by which Maedhros took and used for his own. For while one of his once-sharp eyes, now filmed milky white, lay still whole in its socket, its match had been destroyed and its place was sunken and empty.

Thus so did Curufinwë build his lord anew.

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Image description: two pictures of Maedhros from the Silmarillion; the second is a detail of the first. They are a portrait from the waist up; he faces the viewer in a ¾ position with his prosthetic hand held against his chest. It is a dull gold metal with lightning-bright veins running along its surface. Maedhros’ hair is long and straight, and where he has a burn on the side of his face it has grown out grey. His face is covered in scars, which you can also see on his exposed arms, along with creeping black veins. One of his eyes is filmy white and the other seems to hold a small galaxy - this is the tiny palantír. Both eyes have massive scars across them which also bisect his eyebrows. He is wearing some kind of leather shoulder-cover that overlaps around his neck along with a dark grey tight shirt with a dull gold sash around his waist that falls lower. Behind him is a circling pattern of stars that (hopefully) draws attention to the palantír.