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2020-10-24, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Sanwe-Latya, or Communication of Thought among Elves and Maiar
Near the end of Lord of the Rings, there is a lovely passage in which Celeborn, Galadriel, Elrond and Gandalf are communing in silence beneath the stars:
If any wanderer had chanced to pass, little would he have seen or heard, and it would have seemed to him only that he saw grey figures, carved in stone, memorials of forgotten things now lost in unpeopled lands. For they did not move or speak with mouth, looking from mind to mind, and only their shining eyes stirred and kindled as their thoughts went to and fro.
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2020-10-24, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Sanwe-Latya, or Communication of Thought among Elves and Maiar
Well, counter-evidence would be Gandalf's captivity by Saruman. Mind you, Saruman might have been preventing it somehow, but that it did not function is a possible argument against it working at great distances.
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2020-10-24, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Sanwe-Latya, or Communication of Thought among Elves and Maiar
When Frodo sits on the seat of Amon Hen while wearing the Ring and gazes upon Barad Dur, I'm pretty sure Gandalf speaks in his mind to help him escape from Sauron's gaze:
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