As a proper nerd I have a lot of props lying around, not just at home, but also a few at work to brighten up my desk. For example a “snow”globe of sauron’s eye. The picture was originally taken for the red feather sticking so nicely from the deathtroopers helmet, but the globe gave me an idea to make it a glassball (palantir if you hold to the LOTR lore I think), and let it show a different view instead.