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02-14-2005, 03:27 PM
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02-14-2005, 03:38 PM
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Sorry, I meant to insert a smilie to indicate I wasn't being at all serious. Much as I love, Hugo and Crouching Tiger, and indeed elves generally, in general I am firmly on the side of Tolkien authenticity (although I have to say the elvish film stuff was beautiful). My blood pressure rose to dangerous levels when Haldir turned up at Helms Deep - I was grateful it wasn't Arwen though......
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02-14-2005, 04:29 PM
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Wight
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It's over
All right to set everyone’s minds to rest on this subject, I have the answer: The Elves did not carry curved swords save one Egalmoth of the house of the Heavenly Arch.
From The Book of Lost Tales part 2: “Egalmoth was their chieftain, and wore a blue mantle upon which the stars were broidered in crystal, and his sword was bent- now none else of the Noldoli carried curved swords” Tolkien did, of course, write this very early, and many elements of his mythology changed over the years. However, as he never wrote anything that contradicts this, and ever after continued to write of the leaf-shaped blades of the Elven swords, I say it stands.
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Didn't the saracens use a pair of short blades? not as east as Japan certainly...
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