I don’t really have any personal intrinsic issues with Palantir, but every time I see it, it still boggles my mind that they chose that name. Like, from a branding standpoint, just why?
Gandalf: “A palantír is a dangerous tool, Saruman.”
Saruman: “Why? Why should we fear to use it?”
Gandalf: “They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching!” He throws a sheet over the palantír, catching a momentary glimpse of Sauron’s eye and recoiling.
The stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented. A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones: in The Lord of the Rings, a palantír has fallen into the Enemy’s hands, making the usefulness of all other existing stones questionable.
I mean, yes, I like Tolkien too, but for fuck’s sake. Just pick some sort of suitably-bland name that, oh, alludes to “insight” or “data” or “analytics”, like “Deepsight” or something like that.
I don’t really have any personal intrinsic issues with Palantir, but every time I see it, it still boggles my mind that they chose that name. Like, from a branding standpoint, just why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBMiyEzOJmI&t=110
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantír
I mean, yes, I like Tolkien too, but for fuck’s sake. Just pick some sort of suitably-bland name that, oh, alludes to “insight” or “data” or “analytics”, like “Deepsight” or something like that.
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