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Originally Posted by Dakêsîntrah
However, are you aware of how many parallels I can glean from other ancient texts regarding "life-blood?" etc.
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Look, I'm afraid you're doing it again. "Let me list every possible symbolic, mythological and pseudo-scientific conjectural association with such-and-such that I know of," is all very well as an exercise, but it's largely irrelevant when it comes to making a point in an argument. It is not enough to state that someone, somewhere, has linked meteoric iron with the life-blood of the gods, or whatever it is you're getting at here– what you need to show is a.) that
Tolkien was making this association and b.) that he intended by this to show that Turin's sword spoke with the "voice" (actual or not, as you please) of Eru.
After six posts and over 9,000 words (literally, not just as an internet meme), you have not done this.
EDIT:X'd with Alatar and Bêthberry.