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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   It isn't easy to break an iron sword...   
      
      "I [Elrond] beheld the last combat on the slopes of Orodruin, where   
      Gil-galad died, and Elendil fell, and Narsil broke beneath him;   
      
   If Narsil was that breakable maybe it was bronze. Here's more evidence:   
      
      Very bright was that sword when it was  made whole again;   
      the light of the sun shone REDly in it <-----[my caps]   
      
   My thanks and acknowledgment to the late Öjevind Lång for pointing out   
   a reference (in Tom Bombadil's talk) to Middle Earth's Bronze Age   
   a while ago.   
      
   SQ   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)