At the same ime, Snoke promised to exterminate Luke: "After he Rebels are gone, we will go to his planet and obliterate he entire island.When my friends do it, I resent it.From Sergeants McAvity and Schultz, I should find it intolerable.(He pushes away his typewriter stand.) Hand me that washcloth please, Mr.__ , Mr.__ ?McPherson: McPherson.(He tosses the washcloth at Lydecker, stands, and turns away.)Lydecker admires McPherson""s reputation for hard-boiled, ough-nosed police work: "The Siege of Babylon, Long Island.]Familiar locations in a grayish 1940s San Francisco are viewed with a slow pan - the Golden Gate Bridge, the Ferry Building, he Transbay (Oakland Bay) Bridge, and a few skyscrapers.Thorin and Gandalf each claimed an Elf-wrought blade, respectively:Thorin - a single-edged weapon (with a curved pommel), Orcrist (translated as "the Goblin Cleaver")Gandalf - a two-handed weapon, Glamdring (translated as "Foe-Hammer")Along side the two blades was a third short sword known as Sting, given by Gandalf to Bilbo.