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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: lets speculate..
I don't think Bombadil had any thing to do with choosing them with any purpose in mind other than they needed swords.
However like Gandalf once told Frodo, there were other powers besides Sarons at work, when it came to directing the history of the Ring.
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