Starbreeze told half the story, I'd say. Yes, your dreams are "cleaning up" a lot of thoughts, but there is still meaning in many dreams, especially the ones we remember. I read a great book all about it in the last couple months (wish I could remember the author etc.). Anyway, this guy says that every character and many emblems that appear in our dreams are aspects of ourselves. We usually dream in archetypes, and a hero with a sword are two very powerful archetypes. The fact that your boyfriend doesn't usually do much with this stuff makes it all the more likely that he's going to latch onto Aragorn and his sword. It's more likely that since he doesn't know the story all that well he'd dream of a sword that wasn't broken, especially considering what it probably stands for in the dream.
Follow that through and your boyfriend's awareness in the dream is Aragorn, a hero figure. He holds a big-*** sword (I'm pretty sure what the *** is, which might just be significant). A looonnnnnng sword. A sword in a dream usually is symbolic of male power = potency. Let's be frank. He's waiting for a formless evil, an aspect of himself he's not aware of yet, that because he doesn't know it, he regards as evil and he's ready to overcome it. The sword getting heavy, hmmm, maybe that's emblematic that he won't always be as ready as he is right now...... Just possibilities.
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