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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   On 9/21/2011 3:42 AM, Stan Brown wrote:   
      
   >> I'm not claiming that Narsil   
   >> was bronze, only that it might have been.   
   >   
   > I don't think even the claim that it might have been is tenable.   
      
   I can't prove it was bronze, but can you support the above by   
   demonstrating that it couldn't have been?   
      
    > The Noldor had a higher level of technology.   
      
   Narsil was made by a dwarf, not the Noldor; back in the First Age   
   and perhaps with some magical properties. We know that the dwarves   
   can work at least some magic:   
      
      There were toys the like of which they had never seen before,   
      all beautiful and some obviously magical. Many of them had indeed   
      been ordered a year before, and had come all the way from   
      the Mountain and from Dale, and were of real dwarf-make.   
      
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