04-02-2003, 06:55 PM
. . . to specify which one you mean.
Hi,
As for Aragorn's sword, he did not carry Narsil "from the beginning" nope, he has a diferent one.
In the movie or in the book? In the movie, Aragorn is carrying some sword that is not broken when he meets Frodo's group. In the book, Aragorn is carrying the shards of Narsil when he first meets Frodo in the Prancing Pony. He draws the sword as proof of who he is after he finds out that Bilbo's verse about him was in the letter that Gandalf had left with Butterbur for Frodo. He makes some comment to Sam along the lines of "Not much use. But the time when it will be forged anew is near."
I, for one, prefer the movie version in this case. A person who spends his life in danger and traveling through the wild has little need for the weight and encumbrance of a broken sword and every need for a working weapon. It would make more sense to have left Narsil at Rivendell with the other heirlooms of the house of Isildur. Both having Aragorn carrying the shards and the very concept of "reforging" a sword blade show Tolkien's romanticism and total lack of technical knowledge. But, hey, it is still a great book.
--Pete
Hi,
As for Aragorn's sword, he did not carry Narsil "from the beginning" nope, he has a diferent one.
In the movie or in the book? In the movie, Aragorn is carrying some sword that is not broken when he meets Frodo's group. In the book, Aragorn is carrying the shards of Narsil when he first meets Frodo in the Prancing Pony. He draws the sword as proof of who he is after he finds out that Bilbo's verse about him was in the letter that Gandalf had left with Butterbur for Frodo. He makes some comment to Sam along the lines of "Not much use. But the time when it will be forged anew is near."
I, for one, prefer the movie version in this case. A person who spends his life in danger and traveling through the wild has little need for the weight and encumbrance of a broken sword and every need for a working weapon. It would make more sense to have left Narsil at Rivendell with the other heirlooms of the house of Isildur. Both having Aragorn carrying the shards and the very concept of "reforging" a sword blade show Tolkien's romanticism and total lack of technical knowledge. But, hey, it is still a great book.
--Pete
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