Anyone else think that his sword looked liked Andúril(Narsil)? It shouldn't be there according to the (LoTR movie) time line. I can't recall when it was reforged in the book.
shareIf anyone cares, Anduril was reforged before the Fellowship departed from Rivendell. In the book as well as in the movie, IINM.
Meg, thanks for the reminder. So many facts to remember.
shareJust a correction: Narsil (the original name of the sword) was re-forged and named Anduril. In the book this is done before the Fellowship leaves Rivendell. In the film it doesn't happen until ROTK, just before Aragorn summons the Army of the Dead.
shareYou are correct, dijomaja!
shareI'd like to add that, frankly, the issue of Narsil is one of the few things that made little or no sense in Tolkien's original book. It makes a lot more sense in the Peter Jackson movie. After all, in the original book, Aragorn has been carrying around the broken Narsil for, presumably, as long as he has been able to carry it. He wears it at his side as his *only* sword, though it is broken off a foot from the hilt. That leaves him without an effective fighting weapon, and that made no sense at all. How did he survive all those fights with the enemy throughout his long career as a Dunedain Ranger with nothing but a broken sword? It simply was an unworkable idea, and I always cringed when I read that, each time I did read that part of the book. The fact is, nobody would do that. He really *would* have left it for safe-keeping somewhere, presumably in Rivendell, his boyhood home, which was also the strongest citadel in Middle-Earth. I don't know why Tolkien didn't fix that before it got published. [By the way, Aragorn carried both pieces of Narsil in his sword-scabbard, another silly idea. The Peter Jackson movie broke Naril into more pieces than two, and I wonder why they chose to do that, to change the Tolkien specification on something that small.]