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Old 01-25-2011, 03:29 PM   #81
Ekimeniso
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I don’t know if it’s necessarily a contradiction, but in CoH it was said (and inserted, but as far as I see through the system atm without a number?) that before Gwindor fled from the mines he
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Originally Posted by CoH
received a small sword from one who worked in the forges,
implying that the sword was wrought there, while later, when Beleg and Gwindor rescue Túrin, it says in the lay
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Originally Posted by Lay
NA-EX-47 <Lay NA-RG-20{Flinding}[Gwindor] felt for the forged knife
of {dwarfen}[dwarven] steel, ... wrought by wrights in the realms of the East,
in black Belegost, by the bearded Dwarves
of troth unmindful; it betrayed him now>
I find it questionable that Gwindor would have received another knife during his flight. Of course that's speculation.
I also find the characterisation of the Enfeng of Belegost as "of troth unmindful" questionable in light of the later conceptions.
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