Meldawen wrote:
But that's so sad...I don't want to believe it broke, even if it did. I should look at those scenes up close, see if I can spot it. How could it shatter, anyway? I own a replica of it and It's silver and crystal, silver doesn't shatter. Crystal does, though...I guess...
Hey, it's a REPLICA! I like to believe it's some magical Elvish silver and crystal that CAN shatter (well, I know it didn't). Anyway, in the Return of the King visual movie companion, it says that Sauron was just sending him a vision to scare him, just like the vision of Arwen dying.