I'm not sure whether Strider had a blade with him on Weathertop, but if it was useful( and Strider would have known so) he would have used it along with the flaming brands.
But didn't the blades that the hobbits carried from the barrow-wight's tomb have magical spells wound in them? And actually Merry's blade is the one that helped smite the Witchking himself. It would have made a formidable foe on Weathertop, no? If Strider had such a distinguishable blade, I'm sure he would have used it.
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"I wish I could go all the way with you to Rivendell, Mr. Frodo, and see Mr. Bilbo," said Sam. "And yet the only place I really want to be in is here. I am that torn in two."
"Poor Sam! It will feel like that, I am afraid. " said Frodo. "But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be."
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