Enjoy! Read more: Improvised Lines That Changed Roles Forever The seeing stones of Númenor (also called the palantíri) feature throughout "The Lord of the Rings" films. Saruman (Christopher Lee ...

some of that money came from executives from the notorious data surveillance firm and defense contractor Palantir — which itself is named after the seeing stones from Lord of the Rings used to ...

Mick Jagger was in town with the Rolling Stones, whose Some Girls tour had ... One person who didn’t live to see it was Tolkien, which, according to John Boorman, was probably for the best.

Palantir, which was named after the all-seeing stones from The Lord of the Rings, was founded in 2003 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Its Gotham platform gathers and crunches data for U.S ...