Talking Swords

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Sauce, the Halls of Mandos was beckoning to Eöl? I think if someone has a prison sentence - a lengthy one - he tries to beat the rap.

But, yeah, Eöl's not in the Anglachel.

About the question of the "wandering" twain(Orcrist and Glamdring), Glamdring could have been sneaked out of Gondolin. Orcrist, on the other hand, is a more difficult scenario. Perhaps somebody sneaked in...

[Galadriel: ]If our folk had been exiled long and far from Lothlórien, who of the Galdhrim...would pass nigh and not wish to look upon their ancient home, though it had become an abode of dragons?

(LotR II 7)

Moria had become an abode of Orcs and a Balrog, and still Gimli managed to escape with the Book of Mazarbul (and his life)! Who knows what the Elves could have picked up in Gondolin?