Pinoy Pan de Sal

Glamdring, Sting and Anduril

My Mom knows that when it comes to LOTR (Lord of the Rings) news and updates I'm forever interested. So she told me about this news segment last Friday at ABS CBN TV Patrol: that the LOTR swords were designed and made here in the Philiippines, right in the province of Nueva Ecija.

Talaga lang ha! If that is so then this news should have been out way before, like three years ago.

To further investigate, I opened the ABS CBN website, and true enough, it's there!
Pero wait lang... hindi pala totoo! Kathang isip lang pala ang lahat! Nanaginip lang ang reporter ng ABS CBN, at hanggang ngayon di pa siya gising!

As I've read here, the swords were not Philippine made. As usual hyper na naman ang ABS CBN, basta may maibalita lang sila ok na. Di man lang nila ni-research kung totoo. Nang agaw pa ng credit, grr!

Lesson: Not everything you see on TV is true, especially if its from ABS CBN. Ano? May hihirit ba?

Disturbed lang ako dun sa Gandalf sword na sinasabi. Di ka makakakita ng ganung phrase anywhere. Sa LOTR kasi bawat sword ay may karakter, may history at may pangalan. Gandalf sword is Glamdring, Frodo's is Sting, Aragorn's is Narsil and upon reforging it became Anduril. O di ba, pati sword nabo-born again. Ginagalang sa LOTR and mga swords, di nila tinuturing na inanimate objects. You can never read anything like these... Gandalf's sword was something blabla or Aragorn's sword became blabla.

Sensya na, apektado lang.. gedemmit!