| Re: Mistake in the first movie?
It should have glowed white or appeared white in the presence of enemies, which the first age swords did...er blue for Glamdring if an orc/goblin king was around according to the Hobbit.
And so should have Thorin's sword Orcrist: white reportedly (first age swords did a lot of glowing, but you had to have one...and there weren't that many lying around of the high elf swords). Narsil gleamed with the light of the sun and the moon.
Why was Bilbo's sword different/well it was a knife for starters...it glowed white, but the edges glowed blue. Don't think it says anywhere that all the swords did that. And it definitely doesn't say Glamdring sword shone blue in Tolkien's book for that scene. The other famous knife of that age was Beren's knife that cut iron and the simarillion stone (Dwarf-made), but it broke. Possibly the knives were dwarf made as Bilbo got it from Thorin and were different altogether. Its probably not so much an error as a common belief about them. |