[JenB]

Aragorn won the palantir battle because he had the right to use the palantir, a right Saruman did not have... the Ring would not, I think, have taken kindly to any master except Sauron; but the powerful would have been able to use it. Hobbits would just have been corrupted and discarded. Nasty Ring!

[carton253]

Did Denethor have the right to use the palantir?