As I just mentioned in the swordless submission, I am jkoper, though I had this nick first. I have several things I wanted to mention here.
1. First, I just wanted to point out that I actually do have the records for swordless in both first and second quest. I had just neglected to put them on the leaderboard for a long time, but you can now find them here:
http://www.speedrun.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda/full_game#Swordless I can assure you that the route for my record time is significantly different from both lack's route and my SGDQ route, which took a lot of marathon safeties. I'm considering an attempt at a reroute to try to lower the time some more as well. This is also why I'm very interested in the 2nd quest swordless speedrun and was willing to offer suggestions, though I trust jprofit22's ability to put it out.
2. Second, there's a glitch that we've known about in the speedrunning community for a while, and I'm not sure that you all know about it here because I haven't seen it mentioned. If you are in a room with a shutter door and a key door, you can go through the key door without using the key if you do it as the shutter opens. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to let you keep your key if you do have one, unless you guys can find a way. On the other side of the coin, if you bomb a bomb door at the same time a shutter door is opening, the shutter door operation will override the bomb door operation, leaving the wall solid. I don't know if there are any other interesting combinations of door types within rooms that you can manipulate.
3. I'd like to see more collaboration between the speedrunning community and the TAS community for this game. Eunos in particular does a lot of evaluation down to the frames of certain routes, so there's an overlap. Most of our discussion happens on our discord, and anyone who wants to contribute is welcome:
https://discord.gg/XG2XzuF