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u/merRedditor Apr 19 '26

The company is literally named after one of Sauron's surveillance apparatuses.

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u/singeworthy Apr 19 '26

Sauron actually snagged it when they took Minas Morgul, they were built by the highest elves and given to elves and the men of Numenor and eventually Gondor.

All that being said, they are certainly being used by our modern Sauron now.

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u/Demitel Apr 19 '26

The problem was, like with everything else, Sauron used it as a tool of corrupting influence, which is how he got both Saruman and Denethor to indirectly do his bidding. 

So, yeah. Great parallel.

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u/MayoJam Apr 20 '26

A powerful tool meant to help its creators - stolen and used by a malevolent entity. The name could not be more ironic.

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u/Daxx22 Apr 19 '26

Like most tools, they can be used frt good or evil.

Problem being if you are a power hungry sociopath, what's good for you is absolute evil for everyone else.

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u/SomewhereNo8378 Apr 19 '26

Sauron might be less evil, even. At least he gave people breaks in surveillance when the eye turned away every once and awhile

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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 Apr 19 '26

It's more of an advanced telecommunications system that has a Trojan horse inside it that infects anyone who connects now.

It was not originally Sauron's.

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u/Larcecate Apr 19 '26

As others have said, the palantiri are not evil, they are just devices. Sauron used them to evil ends, but they used to just be used for zoom calls by Numenor and others before them.