I dont know about the rest of you guys.. I want way more depth to the weapon choice, you think they added the spear back in those 18 skills? I miss the throwing stars the spears the crossbows and all that jazz

No. There are no weapons.

well, before they add more weapon types, I say they should add more variety to the same type of weapon.
that's pretty much the only thing I like better in morrowind, than in oblivon: in MW, if you found a rare, enchanted sword somewhere, it wasn't your basic "X material" sword with a spell effect. it LOOKED different. it also usually didn't have the same base values.

THAT, is something I'll be looking for in Skyrim.

I'm hoping hoping hoping hoping that we have spears, crossbows, thrown weapons. I don't care if spears are in Blade, we need spears.

I'm not seeing spears returning, at all... with the reduction in skills, the chances of them actually adding anything new are slim at best

why are they reducing the weapon variety anyways... probably eventually tes will be reduced down to sword and axes, and you have
quality 1 sword/axe
quality 2 sword/axe
quality 3 sword/axe
...
quality 10 sword/axe

boom you have 20 different weapons in the game!

It will depend greatly on how they did the weapon skills. If we still have Blade, Blunt, Marksman, and Hand to Hand I would expect the same range of weapons as Oblivion with the possible, but barely likely addition of crossbows, thrown weapons, and fist weapons. If they have changed Blade and Blunt to 1-Handed and 2-Handed and are relying on perks to specialize within those, then we have the possibility for spears and such.