The Lord of the Rings Collection - THE PALANTIR Hand Dyed on Dream Fingering - Splashed & Speckled Yarn jan26-2 I named it after Homer's

I named it after Homer's epithet from the Odyssey

so it doesn't have the sparkle

I knit up a sample using several different stitches

Splashed & Speckled Colorway450 yards / 3

The Lord of the Rings Collection - THE PALANTIR Hand Dyed on Dream Fingering - Splashed & Speckled Yarn jan26-2 I named it after Homer'sThe Palantir was inspired by The Lord of the Rings. It is the "seeing stone" misused by Saruman and then Pippin, but it rightfully belonged to Aragorn. I had in mind the scene in The Two Towers when Pippin looked in it and saw Sauron. Then Gandalf took it and gave it to Aragorn saying, "Receive it, lord in earnest of other things that shall be given back." This was a colorway from my 2023 Lord of the Rings inspired Advent calendar that followed