Stone of Annúminas

The Stone of Annúminas was the Palantír kept in the city of Annúminas, the first capital of Arnor. 
==Description==
The stone was Possibly comparable to the stones of Orthanc, Minas Ithil, and Minas Anor, as they were relatively the same size, large and could not be lifted by just one man. The stone like the other three were considered, at least during the early days, to be only minor stones. It may have operated by fixed orientation in its original situation, meaning that what ever side or face was, for example east or west, then that is the direction it would look towards, and if turned in any other direction you would see only a blank image. Disturbances and movements of such stone(s) could be fixed without serious difficulty, but if removed from where it was properly set or thrown down to the ground it would be difficult to reset again.Unfinished Tales, Part Four: III: "The Palantíri" 
==History==
Like the other Seeing Stones that the Faithful Dúnedain brought over from Númenor, it was placed in a selected area within the realms ruled by the exiled Dúnedain in Middle-earth, as a means of communication between the new realms of Arnor and Gondor. The Dúnedain of the North chose to place this stone in Annúminas.The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age In Arnor, the law was that the stones belonged to the king only, and he normally used the Stone of Annúminas, but when Arnor broke-up in TA 861 only the Kings of Arthedain held a "just" claim to it and the others. After the destruction of the Tower of Amon Sûl in TA 1409 by Angmar, the Annúminas stone and the one from the tower were moved to Fornost. Hundreds of years later, this arrangement also came to an end when Angmar finally destroyed Arthedain and captured Fornost in TA 1974.
Arvedui, the last King of Arthedain managed to escape with both stones into the north. A year later, just as the King was boarding a ship sent by Círdan to rescue him, a storm struck in the Icebay of Forochel, wrecking the ship. Arvedui was drowned along with the two stones, and so the Stone of Annúminas was lost.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands), The Third AgeUnfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Part Four: III: "The Palantíri", NotesThe Atlas of Middle-earth, The Second Age, "The Realms in Exile"
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Steen van Annúminas
Albanian 	Guri i Annúminas
Amharic 	የአኑሚናስ ድንጋይ
Arabic 	حجر آمون سول
Assamese 	এন'নুমিনাস পাথৰ
Asturian 	Piedra de Annúminas
Azerbaijani 	Annúminas Daşı
Basque 	Annúminas harria
Belarusian Cyrillic	Камень Аннумінас
Bengali 	আন্নুমিনাস পাথর
Bosnian 	Kamen Annúminas
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Камък на Ануминас
Catalan 	Pedra de Annúminas
Cebuano 	Bato sa Annúminas
Chinese 	安努米纳斯石头
Cornish 	Men Annúminas
Corsican 	Pietra di Annúminas
Croatian 	Kamen Annúminas
Czech 	Kámen Annúminas
Danish 	Annúminassten
Dutch 	Steen van Annúminas
Esperanto 	Ŝtono de Annúminas
Estonian 	Annúminasi Kivi
Filipino 	Bato ng Annúminas
Finnish 	Annúminas-stone
French 	Pierre d'Annúminas
Frisian 	Stien fan Annúminas (Western)
Friulian 	Piere di Annúminas
Galician 	Pedra de Annúminas
Georgian 	ამონ სულის ქვა
German 	Stein von Annúminas
Greek 	Πέτρα του Αννούμινας
Gujarati 	એન્યુમિનાસ પથ્થર
Hebrew 	אבן אנומינאס
Hindi 	अन्नुमिनस का पत्थर
Hungarian 	Annúminas Köve
Icelandic 	Steinn Annúminas
Indonesian 	Batu Annúminas
Irish Gaelic 	Cloch Annúminas
Italian 	Pietra d'Annúminas
Japanese 	アヌミナスの石
Javanese 	Watu Annúminas
Kannada 	ಆನುಮಿನಾಸ್ ಕಲ್ಲು
Kazakh 	Аннұминас Тасы (Cyrillic) Annumïnas Tası (Latin)
Korean 	안누미나스 석
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Аннуминас Ташы
Latvian 	Annúminas Akmens
Lithuanian 	Annúminas Akmuo
Lombard 	Pietra d'Annúminas
Luxembourgish 	Steen vun Annúminas
Macedonian Cyrillic	Камен на Аннуминас
Maithili 	एनुमिनास के पत्थर
Malagasy 	Vaton'i Annúminas
Maltese 	Ġebla ta' Annúminas
Malayalam 	അൻമുമിനാസ് കല്ല്
Malaysian 	Batu Annúminas
Marathi 	अॅनुमिनसचा दगड
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Аннуминас Чулуу
Nepalese 	एनुमिनसको ढुङ्गा
Norwegian 	Annúminassteinen
Occitan 	Pèira d'Annúminas
Pashto 	د امون سل ډبره
Persian 	سنگ آمون سول
Polish 	Kamień Annúminas (Annúminas Stone)
Kryształ Annúminas (Annúminas Crystal)
Portuguese 	Pedra da Annúminas
Punjabi 	ਅਨੂਮਿਨਾਸ ਦਾ ਪੱਥਰ
Romanian 	Piatra lui Annúminas
Russian 	Камень Аннуминаса
Sardinian 	Pietra de Annúminas
Serbian 	Камен Ануминас (Cyrillic) Kamen Anuminasa (Latin)
Sicilian 	Pietra di Annúminas
Sinhalese 	ඇනුමිනාස් ගල්
Slovak 	Kameň Annúminas
Slovenian 	Kamen Annúminas
Somali 	Dhagaxa Annúminas
Spanish 	Piedra de Annúminas
Swahili 	Jiwe la Annúminas
Swedish 	Annúminassten
Tamil 	அணுமின்னாஸ் கல்
Tajik Cyrillic 	Санги Аннуминас
Tatar 	Аннуминас Ташы
Telugu 	అన్నుమినాస్ రాయి
Thai 	หินของอันนูมินัส
Turkish 	Annúminas Taşı
Turkmen 	Annúminas Daşy
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Камінь Аннумінас
Urdu 	آمون سول کا پتھر
Venetian 	Piera de Annúminas
Vietnamese 	Viên đá Annúminas
Welsh 	Carreg Annúminas
Xhosa 	Ilitye lika-Annúminas
Yiddish 	דער שטיין פֿון אַננומינאַס
Yoruba 	Okuta Annúminas
==References==
es:Piedra de Annúminas
pl:Kryształ Annúminas
ru:Камень Аннуминаса
Category:Palantíri
Category:Arnor
Category:Objects