Octoburn
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I've been trying to catch up on these since binging the SilmFilm seasions. I am only on episode 46, so someone may have addressed this already.
I usually skip the "field trip", both because I listen on Podcasts rather than watching on YouTube, and because I have yet to play LOTRO.
But I still listen to them once in a while (usually because I am at work and too busy to skip ahead) and did so on episode 43. Near the end of the episode, Cory was commenting on some architecture/statues/carvings (again, I only listen rather than watch) he contemplated why there were only five stars rather than the usual 7 on Arnorion stuff. Then he said he needed to know why there are seven in the first place to figure out why there are 5 in those instances. And Lo! I remembered an obscure fact from the Index of RotK.
So, we know that the seven stars represent the banners that were flown from the ships carrying Palantiri.
Why are there only 5 on some stuff, then? It's not because of the actual Palantiri residing in Arnor, because there were only 3. Perhaps when these carvings were made, two had been lost? Aparrently, after the Witch-king destroyed Arnor, two stones were lost in a shipwreck. That might be it?
EDIT: Actually, the Osgiliath stone was lost before these two (by some 500 years) so it's a bit of a mystery still.
I usually skip the "field trip", both because I listen on Podcasts rather than watching on YouTube, and because I have yet to play LOTRO.
But I still listen to them once in a while (usually because I am at work and too busy to skip ahead) and did so on episode 43. Near the end of the episode, Cory was commenting on some architecture/statues/carvings (again, I only listen rather than watch) he contemplated why there were only five stars rather than the usual 7 on Arnorion stuff. Then he said he needed to know why there are seven in the first place to figure out why there are 5 in those instances. And Lo! I remembered an obscure fact from the Index of RotK.
So, we know that the seven stars represent the banners that were flown from the ships carrying Palantiri.
Why are there only 5 on some stuff, then? It's not because of the actual Palantiri residing in Arnor, because there were only 3. Perhaps when these carvings were made, two had been lost? Aparrently, after the Witch-king destroyed Arnor, two stones were lost in a shipwreck. That might be it?
EDIT: Actually, the Osgiliath stone was lost before these two (by some 500 years) so it's a bit of a mystery still.
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