Re: Yeah, my bet is it is something more like that. - Edit 1
Before modification by Terez at 12/06/2012 05:21:27 AM
I wish he would rather shut up about stuff like this too. It reminds me of him confirming for no good reason that the sword Rand was given by scholars in TGS was Hawkwing's Justice. That too sent many minds spinning on why Rand may need the sword of the leaders of the TAR heroes. Sanderson may not have realized he was killing many alternative theories doing this (Guaire Amalasan's sword, LTT's WOS sword was two of those).
I don't think he killed the theory about Guaire's sword at all; Hawkwing very well could have taken the sword from Amalasan when he was defeated, perhaps in a duel (though Hawkwing denied it; that doesn't mean anything, and if anything suggests there was actually a duel; the reasoning against it is silly, since he was no doubt shielded). And the theory about it being Lews Therin's sword was never a valid option; Rand verified that it was not. Anyway, the real reason I came out of the closet to post here was this bit:
But no, he just flatly told people it was Justice, and in the book Rand said "Rand remembered the sword from his own memories rather than LTT's / there were things about that sword LTT knew and wasn't telling him"
The second bit came from Min's POV, and was in reference to Rand, not Lews Therin. And Rand does know things about the sword he wasn't sharing; he knows it is Justice.