Thread: Talking Swords
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Old 02-26-2004, 10:07 AM   #26
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Are Meteorites considered as stars? Varda made all of them... *mutters about genetic experiments on elves and men*

The Sword the Orcs recognised was Orcist.

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The Great Goblin gave a truly awful howl of rage when he looked at it, and all his soldiers gnashed their teeth, clashed their shields, and stamped. They knew the sword at once. It had killed hundreds of goblins in its time, when the fair elves of Gondolin hunted them in the hills or did battle before their walls. They had called it Orcrist, Goblin-Cleaver, but the goblins called it simply Biter. They hated it worse any one that carried it
Hmm, as which sword Turgon owned, I could not find it in the Silmarillion or LOTR... The fall of Turgon was said to have occured at the overthrow of his tower though.

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..., and of the defence of the tower of Turgon by the people of his household, until the tower was overthrown; and mighty was its fall and the fall of Turgon in its ruin.
This taken literally, means that Turgon fell to his death. I don't know whether that means he was crutching the sword while falling though.
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