How did Frodo get a second sword? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Carorëiel · 04-03-2003, 11:48 AM

I'm a bit confused--are you talking about the last paragraph of "A Knife in the Dark?"
What's confusing you regarding the sword? He only drops it once and doesn't pick it up again:

"At that moment Frodo threw himself forward on the ground, and he heard himself crying aloud: O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! At the same time he struck at the feet of his enemy. A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left shoulder. Even as he swooned he caught, as through a swirling mist, a glimpse of Strider leaping out of the darkness with a flaming brand of wood in either hand. With a last effort, dropping his sword, Frodo slipped the Ring from his finger and closed his right hand tight upon it."

Are you referring to something in the next chapter?

04-03-2003, 11:48 AM	#4
Carorëiel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Tennessee Posts: 54	I'm a bit confused--are you talking about the last paragraph of "A Knife in the Dark?" What's confusing you regarding the sword? He only drops it once and doesn't pick it up again: "At that moment Frodo threw himself forward on the ground, and he heard himself crying aloud: O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! At the same time he struck at the feet of his enemy. A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left shoulder. Even as he swooned he caught, as through a swirling mist, a glimpse of Strider leaping out of the darkness with a flaming brand of wood in either hand. With a last effort, dropping his sword, Frodo slipped the Ring from his finger and closed his right hand tight upon it." Are you referring to something in the next chapter? __________________ "Art is our way of keeping track of what we know and have known, secretly, from the beginning."--John Gardner

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