THE FAR-SEEING STONES UNVEILED
Anons and Patriots of the Great Awakening, Digital Soldiers and Keyboard Warriors all,
In Part III of this series, an interim part, a part to set the stage for the analysis to come, we explored a timeline of what I consider to be interconnected events. Some Anons may not immediately see their relevancy, but I guarantee in time that all will come into focus, like visions in the Palantíri.
In this Part IV of this ongoing series of analysis into Q comms, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and The Return of the King, I begin by positing a series of questions. These questions will guide our analysis as we delve deeper into the mythology of Middle-earth and its echoes into the real world today.
Let us begin with perhaps the most important of all questions, and the question that inspired me to continue this series.
Why did Peter Thiel found a company named Palantir in the same year that Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Return of the King released to theatres (2003)?
What does the company Palantir specialize in, and is it directly relevant to the Palantíri of The Lord of the Rings?
Where does the term Palantír originate?
What is the narrative significance of the Palantíri?
Why did President Trump partner his administration with Peter Thiel’s Palantir company?
What is the database that President Trump and Peter Thiel are working on, and what does it have to do with the sovereign citizens of America?
In the last thread, I asked that you bear with me as we explored necessary history that sets the real-world stage for discussion into the Palantir rabbit hole. In this thread, I will ask the same of you. Bear with me a second time as we explore the corporate and literary history of this subject. I promise that in Part V we will tie all of this together!
TOWERS OF OLD AND NEW
Let us begin our analysis with the history of the Palantir company.
Palantir Technologies Inc. is a U.S. based software company that specializes in big data analytics. As we briefly explored in Part III of this series, it was founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel and a number of other prominent technology specialists. Its founding took place a mere two years after the demolition of the Twin Towers in New York. The temporal proximity of these two events is not random. The timing of these events is quintessential to our analysis. Indeed the theatrical release of The Two Towers a mere year after the fall of The Twin Towers is itself a happening worthy of its own thread. For now we will simply acknowledge that there are no coincidences.
Palantir Technologies builds platforms to help organizations integrate, analyze, and secure large datasets, primarily serving government and commercial clients in the Western world. Palantir’s core mission is stated to be the enabling of data-driven decision-making for complex problems, from national security to enterprise operations.
You may already begin to see the strategic military implications of a company such as Palantir and why it was founded in the aftermath of 9/11 and in the prelude to The Sixteen Year Plan to Destroy America.
Palantir has four divisions that specialize in data analytics. Each will be important to our ongoing analysis.
Palantir Gotham: Used by government clients for counter-terrorism and military operations. We will return to an analysis of this one in a dedicated thread that analyzes the Batman connections. That will likely be its own thread, and not a continuation in The Return of the King series.
Palantir Foundry: A commercial platform to manage and visualize data for industries like manufacturing and finance.
Palantir Apollo: A platform for automated updates and deployments for Gotham and Foundry.
Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP): Launched in 2023, integrates AI for government and commercial insights.
To summarize, Peter Thiel’s company Palantir Technologies stands at the forefront of big data analytics, empowering organizations with its Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and AIP platforms. These tools enable governments to tackle security challenges and businesses to streamline operations across industries like healthcare and finance. By transforming complex data into clear, actionable insights, Palantir drives smarter decision-making in high-stakes environments.
SECRETS WROUGHT BY FËANOR’S HAND
Many inquisitive Anons may have grown impatient by this point in this series, wondering where is the connection to Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Return of the King. Let us now answer that question and depart from the world of happenings we know today and enter the fantasy world of Tolkien as we explore the origins of the term Palantir, and its absolute significance to all that is occurring in our world today.
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the Palantíri (or Palantir for singular) are magical, crystal-like seeing stones created by the Elves of Valinor, specifically by Fëanor, a renowned craftsman. The name “Palantir” derives from Quenya, meaning “far-seer.”
Palan = far
Tír = watch over
Thus, Palantir means roughly to watch over from far away. The Palantíri allowed the rulers of Middle-earth to see distant places, events, or people in real-time and communicate across vast distances by linking with other stones. They do not grant foresight but can reveal what is happening elsewhere or, in some cases, glimpses of the past.
In Tolkien’s work, the Palantíri are described as perfect spheres, dark and smooth, varying in size from small (about a foot in diameter) to large (too heavy for a singular person to lift). When inactive, they appear black; when active, they glow with inner light, showing visions within. Using a Palantir requires both mental strength and focus. The user’s will directs the stone’s vision, though stronger minds (like Sauron’s) can manipulate or dominate what is seen. The stones are most effective when aligned with another Palantir.
The Palantíri were crafted in the Third Age of Middle-earth and were gifted to the Númenóreans by the Elves. After Númenor’s fall, seven stones were brought to Middle-earth by Elendil. It is important for Anons to understand that narratively the Palantíri were neither created by the men of Middle-earth, nor did they originate in Middle-earth. They were brought there as a gift from the Elves of the West.
The seven Palantíri brought to Middle-earth by Elendil included:
Palantír 1: Minas Tirith - In Gondor’s capital, functional in The Lord of the Rings, handed down from Númenor.
Palantír 2: Minas Ithil - Fell to Sauron at Minas Morgul.
Palantír 3: Orthanc - Used by Saruman in Isengard.
Others: Osgiliath, Annúminas, Amon Sûl (Weathertop), and Elostirion (Tower Hills, later taken to Valinor) were lost or removed.
For narrative significance, it is only important that we know of the whereabouts of the first three aforementioned seeing stones.
THE SHADOW’S GAZE CORRUPTED
Thus far we have analyzed the etymology of the term palantír and its historical occurrence in both Tolkien’s mythology and in the world we know today. Let us now focus on the narrative significance. Remember as always Anons, Q told us many times that we are watching a movie. The narratives we experience in Q’s movie are undoubtedly connected to the narratives of fiction and fantasy that have come into prominence over the last century.
As many Anons may not have read the original literary novels of The Lord of the Rings, we will meld both the literary and the cinematic in our analysis going forwards. In this way, all Anons can grasp an understanding of the subject matter of the Palantíri. With this in mind, we will begin with Peter Jackson’s motion pictures.
Let us begin with a significant parallel in time. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, culminating in The Return of the King (2003), coincided with Peter Thiel’s founding of Palantir in 2003, the same year in which The Return of the King was released to wide acclaim in theatres. This would have been at the peak cultural awareness of what a Palantír is and its narrative significance to The Lord of the Rings. As I’ve reiterated throughout this series, and as Q has reminded us, THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES! None. Everything has meaning.
The Palantír present in Peter Jackson’s motion picture adaptation was that of the Orthanc stone, contained within the tower in Isengard and used foolishly by the once wise Saruman the White. Peter Jackson’s adaptation was lacking in the second and third stones that affected events in the timeline of the destruction of The One Ring. The second stone was kept in Gondor and was likewise foolishly used by Denethor, the Steward of the Kingdom of Gondor who was protecting the throne until the Dúnedain heir to the throne returned. This heir was of course Aragorn who was the only individual wise enough to know how and when to best utilize the Palantir for the military strategy required to bring Sauron to fall.
A third stone was taken by Sauron from Minas Ithil when Sauron took the city and renamed it to Minas Morgul. This Palantir, in Sauron’s possession, is what made the others so dangerous to use. This will be an important narrative point as we continue our analysis.
Let us then begin a cinematic and literary analysis of the appearance of the Palantíri both in film and original manuscript. The first we see of a Palantir in Peter Jackson’s films is during the opening act of The Fellowship of the Ring. Gandalf, upon learning that Frodo is in possession of The One Ring, rides to Isengard, to the tower Orthanc to seek counsel with the head of his order of Wizards. There he meets Saruman whom he believes will give wise counsel as to what is to be done about The One Ring.
In an ill turn of events, Gandalf learns that Saruman had been corrupted by Sauron, and instead of granting counsel Saruman gives Gandalf an ultimatum; join with Sauron or be imprisoned in the high tower of Orthanc indefinitely. How did this corruption occur though? Saruman was thought to be wise and his wisdom so great that he was nigh incorruptible. The answer is in the Palantír of Orthanc. Saruman sought to use the Palantír in his possession to spy upon Sauron. This spying worked both ways, and Sarumon fell under the shadow of Sauron. He grew to believe that the wisest action was to ally with Sauron, as he was led to believe that there was no defeating Mordor.
In the motion picture of The Two Towers we see Saruman yet again using the Palantir to converse with Sauron. It is during this pivotal scene that Sauron commands Saruman to build an army worthy of Mordor. As we discussed in Parts I and II of this series, the military strategy present in The Lord of the Rings trilogy very much echoes the real world, where Isengard and Mordor might be seen as Israel and Ukraine (Khazaria) and Rohan and Gondor could be seen as The United States and Russia.
After this scene, we do not glimpse the Palantir again until The Return of the King when perhaps its most pivotal use in the war against Sauron and Mordor may be seen. After the fall of Isengard to the Ent army, the stone of Orthanc fell from the tower where Saruman once held possession over it. In the film adaptation, Saruman is killed by an arrow shot from Legolas’ bow. The original narrative of the book is much different. In the book, Saruman continues to live for some time. He is guarded against leaving the tower Orthanc by Treebeard, though he eventually escapes through deceiving Treebeard with his wisdom and finds his way to the Shire where the Scouring takes place.
This distinction is narratively important to our analysis. It was Gandalf, in the original book manuscript, that remarked upon the fall of Isengard that Saruman would lament the loss of his Palantír . With his seeing stone, Saruman could have continued his conversing with Sauron and still had some effect on the war for Middle-earth. Without the stone, Saruman was completely cut off. Gandalf also remarked that Sauron would have seen Saruman’s sudden disappearance from the seeing stone as a sign that he turned traitor against him. It is vital that Anons understand a key point about the Palantíri, something that Tolkien went out of his way to make abundantly clear in the narrative. The Palantíri were not in and of themselves evil, nor were they created by Sauron as we have discussed already.
The next we see of the Palantir in the motion picture trilogy was when it was taken back to the hall of Théoden in Rohan. Gandalf kept close watch over it to guard against its use, as he understood how dangerous conversing with Sauron could be. Pippin, perhaps the most foolhardy of the hobbit folk, could not resist a second glimpse of the seeing stone though. Through trickery he stole it away from Gandalf and peered into its depths. There he found the gaze of Sauron watching him.
Sauron at this point in the narrative was already aware that a hobbit was in possession of The One Ring. He had previously tortured Gollum and gained knowledge that Bilbo Baggins had taken The One Ring from the depths of The Misty Mountains. He knew not that Bilbo had gifted the Ring to his nephew Frodo. To give away something as precious as the Ring was beyond Sauron’s comprehension. For all Sauron knew, it was Pippin who held the Ring and was now challenging him for authority over it. In this way, Sauron revealed his attack plans against the city of Minas Tirith in Gondor where Pippin and Gandalf eventually ride.
A GLIMMER AMIDST THE SHADOWS
Anons, Pippin’s foolhardy gaze into the Palantír revealed Sauron’s plans, yet it was but a shadow of the stone’s true power. As we’ve seen, the Palantíri, crafted by Fëanor’s hand, are neither good nor evil. They are tools shaped by the will of their wielder. Saruman fell to Sauron’s deceit, Denethor to despair, yet Aragorn wielded the stone with wisdom, turning its vision against Mordor.
So too, Anons, must we view Palantir Technologies, born in the shadow of 9/11 and now joined with Trump’s vision. Q taught us: THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES. The parallels run deep, but fear not the shadows we’ve uncovered.
In Part V, we seek the light of the Palantír; truth to guide us through these modern seeing-stones. What does Trump’s partnership with Thiel’s Palantir mean for our sovereignty? Can this tool, like Aragorn’s Palantír, serve the free people of America, not the cabal of Mordor? The answers lie in Q’s movie, where history and myth converge.
Anons, the shadows in the Palantíri are but a veil. Join me in Part V to pierce them with truth, forging a path where surveillance bends not to tyranny but to the will of the awakened.
This series will continue in Part V — The Light of the Palantír
— Qanaut —
For your delectation: https://brooksbymemoirs.blogspot.com/2015/03/history-of-graffiti-kilroy-was-here.html
I read an account that it came from a quality control inspector at a munitions plant that always signed off his inspected item with his name, "Kilroy". When troops would receive the items in the field, they would notice this, and made a wag of it.