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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."
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"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
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