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			'Merry had his own Barrow sword that he used to stab the Witch King.'
 Yes but this destroyed it.
 
 Thus my hypothesis, that as Sam would have an extra [after Frodo gives him Sting] Sam would give his to Merry's whose was destroyed by the stabbing of the Witch-King [ ' ...the sword broke, splintering into many shards...']
 
				__________________   The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the  night exchanging  lore & wisdom  such  as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or  indeed  rebelled against the Light.      |