[Title Page & Table of Contents]

[page i] I Palantir 3 The Official Publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, an organization of devotees of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, insofar as they treat of the lands and peoples of Middle Earth. CONTENTS: Cover - a soldier of Gondor ............... Bjo Trimble ........... C The Parting of Arwen ...................... Elfrida Rivers ........ l Haiku Portrait ......... Don Studebaker, Ted Johnstone & others ... 5 Ethical Patterns in _The Lord of the Rings_ ... Patricia Spacks ..... 6 The Watcher in the Water and Others ........ Dainis Bisenieks .... 14 No Monroe in Lothlorien .................... Dr. Arthur Weir ..... 17 Hobbits and Heroes .................... Anthony Curtis ........... 20 "Thank Goodness" ......... publisherial ...... Bruce Pelz .......... 21 Back cover and frontispiece by Bjo Trimble Cartoon on p.16 by Jack Harness and Dean Dickensheet Copies of I Palantir are available from the publisher, Bruce Pelz [Box 100, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles California 90024] at 25¢ each. British subscribers may send 1/9 per issue to Ken Cheslin [18, New Farm Road, Stourbridge, Worcs, England.] It is not advisable to subscribe for more than one future issue -- see p.21. Memberships in the Fellowship of the Ring are $1.00 or 7/- to Bruce Pelz or Ken Cheslin, respectively. Members receive a printed membership card with their names ornamentally calligraphed thereon.