"Very good. We now have a representative of all the races with us. A Man, a Dwarf, and two Hobbits. But that's okay," he said with a wink, "they're small."

"So it is magic. I had suspected as much." He looked down at it again. "Most of the jewellery of my acquaintance has not been so opinionated. Is it like a Palantir, then?"