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That raises the question in my mind, as why the Defender of Minas Tirith and the heir to the seat of Stewards, descended in a long line from Mardil, who was distinctly of pure Numenorean descent, wasn't carrying a blade of that history
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Who's to say that Boromir's sword wasn't of that history, just because it wasn't mentioned, doesn't mean it wasn't true.
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I think we can take Treebeard as honest, after all his words made it into the text, and there aren't any other incidences of him being wholly wrong about things like that.
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Treebeard wasn't lying, (ie. he was honest), but he didn't know everthing. Just because his words made it into the text doesn't mean they were true, just that he said them. In one of the letters, I think one refering to orcs, Tolkien says that Treebeard was wrong and didn't know everything.