At first I want to say hello to you all here, because it is my first post in this forum.
Now, to the topic...
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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
Is it not possible that Eol learned the craft of infusing inanimate objects with houseless spirits? Or perhaps such a spirit simply decided to house itself in a sword of its own accord. Given that a spirit can exist independently of a physical body, there is no reason why it should necessarily require an organic body.
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We have here two cases, which are possible.
1) Turin has mentioned, that Gurthang didn't talk. All happened in Turambars brain. But we don't know it for sure, Tolkien never said that directly. But this is possible, especially from the psychologic point and the mental confusion in which Turambar is situated.
2) The sword came orginally from Eol, who forged it from a fallen meteorite. I remember darkly, that Melian (?) said to Turin, that the dark heart of that dark elf has lived in the sword. So it is possible, that Eol forged in a way that something of his 'spirit' came into this sword. Or the metal of the fallen meteorite has some special attributes, so that the sword have an inherent power after being forged and is indeed in a way similar to the one ring, but with less power.
There are many details, which could be the cause of the innate power of the sword: Eol's abilities to forge, the special metal or the dark soul of Eol.
Maybe the curse of Morgoth played a rol in that story.
IMHO the sword didn't really physically speak. But Turambar heard something in his mind. But I don't think, that this was only a product of his mind. The sword was in a way the cause, that all the ill-things came into his mind. With a normal sword, he hadn't had this 'bout'. Only my meaning.