Talking Swords - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Kransha · 02-22-2004, 11:01 AM

This is probably a pretty repetitive opinion, but; I believe that, like a lot of sections of the Silmarillion, this may have merely been one of those lovely mythic metaphors. There are the other events involving Gurthang that indicate that it might have a concience, but I don't believe swords could talk, even in such a magical, mystical world. Gurthang/Anglachel was an important trinket...err...weapon, so it's uses could be interpreted as things a living, breathing being might do. It's sort of like a "mood sword."

02-22-2004, 11:01 AM	#16
Kransha Ubiquitous Urulóki Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The port of Mars, where Famine, Sword, and Fire, leash'd in like hounds, crouch for employment Posts: 747	This is probably a pretty repetitive opinion, but; I believe that, like a lot of sections of the Silmarillion, this may have merely been one of those lovely mythic metaphors. There are the other events involving Gurthang that indicate that it might have a concience, but I don't believe swords could talk, even in such a magical, mystical world. Gurthang/Anglachel was an important trinket...err...weapon, so it's uses could be interpreted as things a living, breathing being might do. It's sort of like a "mood sword." __________________ "What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name, Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law. For old our office, and our fame," -Aeschylus, Song of the Furies