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The weapons and armour of Middle-earth are all those mentioned J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings, such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.<ref name="burdge"/>Template:Sfn

Tolkien modelled his fictional warfare on the Ancient and Early Medieval periods of history. His depiction of weapons and armour particularly reflect Northern European culture as seen in Beowulf and the Norse sagas. Tolkien established this relationship in The Fall of Gondolin, the first story in his legendarium to be written. In this story, the Elves of Gondolin use the mail armour, swords, shields, spears, axes and bows of Northern European warfare. In Tolkien's writings, such Medieval weapons and armour are used by his fictional races, including Elves, Dwarves, Men, Hobbits, and Orcs.Template:Sfn

As in his sources, Tolkien's characters often gave names to their weapons, sometimes with runic inscriptions to show they are magical and have their own history and power.<ref name="burdge">Template:Harvnb</ref>

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TerminologyEdit

Tolkien devised several constructed languages with terms for types of weapons.

TypesEdit

SwordsEdit

Swords symbolized physical prowess in battle for Tolkien, following Northern European culture.<ref name="burdge"/> Tolkien writes that Elves and Dwarves produced the best swords (and other war gear) and that Elvish swords glowed blue in the presence of Orcs. Elves generally used straight swords while Orcs generally used curved swords. Both races have exceptions: Egalmoth of Gondolin used a curved sword and the Uruk-hai of Isengard used short, broad blades. Tolkien often mentions the use of shields together with one-handed swords.Template:Sfn

KnivesEdit

Knives are mentioned in Tolkien's works, sometimes as backup weapons—such as the unnamed long knife of Legolas the archer.Template:Sfn However, some individual knives are given more significance through naming (e.g. Sting, see below).<ref name="burdge"/> In "The Scouring of the Shire", Saruman attempts to stab Frodo with a knife, but is foiled by the mithril shirt worn under his jacket. Shortly afterwards Saruman's throat was fatally cut with a knife borne by Wormtongue.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>

For The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Legolas possessed twin fighting knives carried in sheaths near his quiver.Template:Sfn

Special types of knifeEdit

There are some special types of knife in Tolkien's fiction which do not have formal names, but nevertheless play important roles in the plot.

Morgul-bladesEdit

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The Witch-king of Angmar, leader of the Nazgûl, used a magical dagger called a "Morgul-blade" to wound Frodo Baggins at Weathertop. The dark magic of the knife gravely affects Frodo's well-being, threatening to turn him into a wraith, especially because its detachable point migrated in Frodo's body for more than two weeks before it could be extracted, thus causing great damage. Recurring ill effects from the wound contribute to Frodo's eventual departure to Valinor.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb</ref> According to the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, the weapon may owe something to the tradition of the "elf-shot" found in Old English medical texts and charms, where it denotes illnesses of presumed supernatural origin.<ref name="Donovan 2013">Template:Harvnb</ref>

Barrow-bladesEdit

Tom Bombadil recovers four magical daggers, forged by the Men of Westernesse to fight the powers of Angmar, from a tomb guarded by the Barrow-wight. After opening the barrow and freeing the hobbits, Tom Bombadil gives them the weapons, saying "Old knives are long enough as swords for hobbit-people".<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> One of these "Barrow-blades" – that given to Merry Brandybuck – proves instrumental in bringing about the death of the Witch-king.<ref name="Battle of the Pelennor Fields" group=T>Template:Harvnb, book 5, ch. 6 "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields", p. 117: "No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will."</ref>

The daggers had varying fates. The Witch-king broke Frodo's blade at the Ford of Bruinen. Sam Gamgee left his beside Frodo in Cirith Ungol; it was returned to Gandalf, along with Frodo's mithril mail-shirt, by the Mouth of Sauron.<ref group=T name="Black Gate Opens"/> Pippin Took used his dagger in the Battle of the Black Gate to slay a Troll.<ref group=T name="Black Gate Opens">Template:Harvnb</ref> Merry's blade is destroyed during his attack on the Witch-king.<ref name="Battle of the Pelennor Fields" group=T/>

AxesEdit

Battle axes are especially favoured by Dwarves in Tolkien's writings;Template:Sfn Gimli uses the battle cry: Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you! (Khuzdul: Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!).<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, "The Battle of Helm's Deep"</ref> For The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gimli the Dwarf was assigned various axes of different makes during the course of the films.Template:Sfn

The Sindarin Elves of Doriath favoured axes as weapons during the First Age. Other notable axe-bearers were Tuor (the wielder of the axe Dramborleg), the Men of the White Mountains who marched to the defence of Minas Tirith in The Lord of the Rings movie (replacing the axe-wielding men of Lossarnach from the book), and a contingent of Easterlings among the besiegers of Minas Tirith.Template:Cn

Bows and arrowsEdit

Bows of different sizes and construction are featured in Tolkien's works. Elves of Lothlórien, Men, and Uruk-hai used longbows, while Elves of Mirkwood and Orcs of Mordor used smaller ones. These bows are said to be made of wood, horn and even steel.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The most famous bowman in Tolkien's stories of the First Age of Middle-earth is the Elf Beleg; his bow was named Belthronding, and his arrow Dailir. Infamously Curufin, a lord of the Noldor, attempts to shoot the Elf-princess Lúthien with the bow of his brother Celegorm. His first arrow is intercepted by Huan; Beren attempts to intercept the second shot, and is wounded.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>

In The Lord of the Rings, set in the late Third Age, a bow is the main weapon of Legolas, the Elf-member of the Fellowship of the Ring. When the Fellowship meet Galadriel, she gives Legolas a new bow. He later uses it to shoot all the way across the great river Anduin and bring down an airborne Nazgûl.Template:Sfn

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy assigns a bow to AragornTemplate:Sfn and crossbows to the Uruk-hai.Template:Sfn However, in Tolkien's writings Aragorn is armed only with the sword Andúril, and crossbows are only mentioned in connection to hunting by Númenoreans in their lost homeland of Númenor.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>

Sometimes individual arrows are given special mention in Tolkien's works. In The Hobbit, the Black Arrow was a royal heirloom used by Bard the Bowman to kill the dragon Smaug.<ref name="Fire and Water" group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> In The Lord of the Rings, the Red Arrow was a token used by Gondor to summon its allies in time of need.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, p. 72; Template:Harvnb, p. 364, 411</ref> In the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Red Arrow is omitted and its role is conflated with the Beacons of Gondor.<ref name="timmons">Template:Harvnb</ref>

Hobbits "shot well with the bow".<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> The Shire sent archers to the battles of the Fall of Arnor.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>

ArmourEdit

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Tolkien stated that the styles of the Bayeux Tapestry fitted the Rohirrim "well enough".<ref name="Tolkien Bayeux" group=T/>

Body armour in Tolkien's fiction is mainly in the form of mail or scale shirts, in keeping with Ancient and Early Medieval periods of history.Template:Sfn In contrast, the Lord of the Rings film trilogy features later medieval plate armour suits.Template:Sfn These kinds of plate armour are not found in Tolkien's writings, but plate does appear in the form of individual pieces such as vambraces (forearm guards) or greaves (leg and shin guards). As with other items of war, Elves and Dwarves produced the best armour. The mail shirt forged by Dwarves from the fictional metal mithril appears in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, worn in turn by the protagonists Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.Template:Sfn<ref name="mithril">Template:Harvnb</ref>

In Letter 211 of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author compared the war-gear of the Rohirrim to the Bayeux Tapestry, made during the Norman Conquest of Anglo-Saxon England.<ref name="Tolkien Bayeux" group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>

HelmetsEdit

Battle helmets are commonly used by virtually all races in Tolkien's writings. The Rohirrim were partly modelled on the Anglo-Saxons, who wore elaborate helmets; Éomer's helmet had a long white horse-tail panache that trailed in the wind.<ref name="Shippey Panache">Template:Cite book</ref> The Crown of Gondor was a jewelled battle-helmet; Aragorn received it at his coronation. Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee use Orc-helmets as part of their disguise in Mordor.Template:Cn

In the First Age, Dwarves made dragon-helms, which were said to protect against Dragons. The most famous of these was the Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin.Template:Cn

The Second Age was dominated by Númenor. The Númenórean helmet, the karma, reached particularly elaborate forms. Those of the Uinendili, a guild of mariners, were "made of overlapping plates of metal, the 'fish-crest' of leather embossed and coloured".<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, inside rear dust-jacket</ref> Tolkien's coloured drawing of the karma of a Uinendili captain features on the cover of Unfinished Tales.Template:Cn

Named itemsEdit

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Tolkien emulated his Northern European mythological and literary sources in having his characters give names to their weapons, marking these out as important aspects of character and sometimes as ancient heirlooms. Named weapons in Medieval literature include Hrunting and Nægling in Beowulf, Tyrfing in the Elder Edda and Gram in the Völsunga saga. The items illustrate the passage of time and the transfer of power or fate to their future bearers.<ref name="burdge"/>

Named swords and knivesEdit

AnglachelEdit

Anglachel (Sindarin: Iron of the Flaming Star) was a sword forged of meteoritic iron by Eöl the Dark Elf, given to Thingol King of Doriath as a fee for leave to dwell in Nan Elmoth. It could cleave all earth-delved iron. Later wielded by Beleg Strongbow and ultimately Túrin;<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb, p. 148, 419</ref> Anglachel was reforged and renamed Gurthang (Sindarin: Iron of Death<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, p. 443</ref>). Túrin used Gurthang to kill Glaurung, the Father of Dragons, and later used the sword to take his own life in recompense for the accidental slaying of Beleg and the unjust slaying of Brandir. The stories endow the sword with a personality; Melian the Maia perceived malice in it as it was given to Beleg Cúthalion, and the elf Gwindor observed that Anglachel (so named then) seemed to mourn the death of Beleg at the hand of his friend Túrin by Anglachel itself. Túrin asked the sword whether it would slay him swiftly if he cast himself on its point, and it responded at length (the only instance of Gurthang speaking with voice). The depiction of the sword was influenced by that of the sword of the Finnish character Kullervo in the Kalevala.<ref name="burdge"/><ref name="petty">Template:Harvnb</ref>

AngristEdit

Angrist (Sindarin: Iron-cleaver<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>) was a knife made by the great weaponsmith Telchar of Nogrod, and borne by Curufin. Beren, who had taken it from Curufin, used it to cut a magical Silmaril jewel out of Morgoth's Iron Crown; as Beren attempted to remove another, the knife snapped.<ref name="burdge" /><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> In the earliest version of Beren's story in The Book of Lost Tales, he uses an ordinary household knife; the element of Curufin's involvement in Beren's affairs came later.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, "The Tale of Tinúviel</ref>

AnguirelEdit

Anguirel (Sindarin: Iron of Eternity) is the sword forged by Eöl the Dark Elf, similar to Anglachel which was given to Thingol of Doriath in The Silmarillion. It was the mate of Anglachel, was made of the same meteoritic iron, and had the same physical properties and capabilities as Anglachel, but there is no evidence of sentience in Anguirel. Anguirel was kept by Eöl until it was stolen by his son, Maeglin.<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>

AranrúthEdit

Aranrúth (Sindarin: King's Ire<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>) is the sword wielded by King Thingol of Doriath in The Silmarillion.<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb, p. 171</ref> Later the sword of the Kings of Númenor.

GlamdringEdit

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An artistic representation of the sword Glamdring based on its description in The Lord of the Rings

Glamdring (Sindarin: Foe-hammer<ref name="A Short Rest" group=T/>) is a sword in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Unfinished Tales forged in the First Age by the High Elves of the hidden city of Gondolin. It belonged first to Turgon, the King of Gondolin. Thousands of years later, in Template:ME-date, Gandalf discovered it among the hoard of the three trolls in The Hobbit, and he carried it throughout his journeys with Bilbo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring. It was the mate of Orcrist, and like Orcrist would glow blue whenever orcs were nearby. Glamdring was nicknamed "Beater" by the goblins of the Misty Mountains.<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, ch 2 "Roast Mutton"</ref><ref name="A Short Rest" group=T/><ref name="The Ring Goes South" group=T/><ref name="The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" group=T/><ref name="White Rider" group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, p. 54</ref>

GurthangEdit

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GúthwinëEdit

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Gúthwinë (Old English: gúð-wine Battle Friend<ref name="Tolkien Dictionary">Tolkien Dictionary</ref>) is the sword wielded by Éomer, third marshal of the Riddermark in The Lord of the Rings.<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, p. 139</ref> The name is found in the Old English poem Beowulf, where the hero uses the word as an epithet for the sword Hrunting, lent to him by Hrothgar's thane Unferth for the fight with Grendel's mother.<ref>Beowulf, line 1810</ref>

HadhafangEdit

Hadhafang is the sword invented for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, where it was wielded by Arwen, although she is never actually seen using it in combat, as the blade's design was for main use on horseback, and footage of Arwen at Helm's Deep was ultimately cut.Template:Sfn The name is derived from Tolkien's etymological word list written in the 1930s; here Tolkien provides the word hadhathang (dissimilated: havathang, hadhafang), which he translates as "throng-cleaver", though he never used this name in his writings.<ref group="T">Template:Harvnb</ref>

HerugrimEdit

Herugrim (Old English: Fierce Sword<ref name="Tolkien Dictionary"/>) is the sword that belonged to Théoden.<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, p. 123</ref>

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Narsil / AndúrilEdit

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Artist's impression of the re-forged Andúril, with runic inscription, crescent Moon and rayed Sun. A single star is shown rather than Tolkien's "seven stars".

Narsil (Quenya: roughly, Red and White Flame<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb</ref>) is a sword in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion,<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb</ref><ref name="Council of Elrond" group=T/><ref name="King of the Golden Hall" group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> influenced by the legendary Arthurian sword Excalibur<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and by Sigurd's sword Gram, as described in the Old Norse Völsunga saga.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The sword was forged during the First Age by the Dwarf Telchar<ref name="King of the Golden Hall" group=T/><ref name=new>Template:Cite book</ref> of Nogrod, a famous weaponsmith and artificer who also made the knife Angrist (which cut a Silmaril from the crown of Morgoth) and the Helm of Hador (later used by Túrin Turambar). By the end of the Second Age Narsil was borne by Elendil; during the Last Alliance of Elves and Men it was broken in two pieces in the war against Sauron. Isildur used the hilt-shard to cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand. The two shards, acquiring the additional name the Sword that was Broken, remained an heirloom of Isildur's heirs throughout the Third Age, and were thus inherited by Aragorn. Elvish smiths re-forged the sword for Aragorn before the Fellowship of the Ring began their quest; Aragorn renamed it Andúril (Quenya: Flame of the West).<ref name="Council of Elrond" group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref><ref name="The Ring Goes South" group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> The reforged Andúril is described as very bright, shining red and white with the light of the sun and moon.<ref name="The Ring Goes South" group=T/><ref name="The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, book 3, ch. 7, "Helm's Deep"</ref> The Silmarillion further states that the original Narsil already shone in such a manner, but its light was extinguished when it was broken.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> The reforged blade had "a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and the rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes".<ref name="The Ring Goes South" group=T/>

OrcristEdit

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Sword "Orcrist" as seen in "The Hobbit"

Orcrist (Sindarin: Goblin-cleaver<ref name="A Short Rest" group=T/>), a sword in The Hobbit. was originally forged in Gondolin and was nicknamed "Biter" by the goblins of the Misty Mountains. After finding it in a troll-hoard, Thorin Oakenshield carries the sword through the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood before being taken prisoner by the Elves; it was laid on his tomb after his death in the Battle of Five Armies. It is the mate of Glamdring.<ref name="burdge"/><ref name="A Short Rest" group=T>Template:Harvnb, ch. 3, "A Short Rest"; ch. 18, "The Return Journey"</ref>

RingilEdit

Ringil (Sindarin: Cold-Star / Cold-Spark) is a sword wielded by Fingolfin in The Silmarillion and The Lays of Beleriand. It bit with chilling cold, and glittered like ice with a pale light.<ref name="burdge"/> This was the sword with which Fingolfin wounded Morgoth seven times, causing the first dark lord to limp forever afterward.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, "The Lay of Leithian", Canto XII</ref>

In Tolkien's early writings, Ringil was the name of one of the two pillars supporting the Two Lamps of primeval Middle-earth.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb (Part I) pp. 69–70</ref>

StingEdit

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Elijah Wood as Frodo, holding Sting, in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

Sting is a large Elvish dagger in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It functioned well as a sword for the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, ch. 2, "Roast Mutton"; Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb, p. 221, Template:Harvnb, p. 173, 204</ref> Bilbo named the weapon after using it to fend off the giant spiders in Mirkwood forest, then later passed it on to Frodo to use in his quest to destroy the One Ring. Sting glows blue when orcs are nearby, as in Moria.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In Europe, bilbo blades were exceptionally fine swords, named after the city of Bilbao which made them. It is possible that Tolkien connected Bilbo's name with his acquisition of this weapon.<ref name="Rateliff 2010">Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Efn

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film adaptations, Sting is depicted as leaf-shaped, with gentle curving edges. Engraved on the blade and cross-guard are letters in Sindarin that read phonetically, Maegnas aen estar nin dagnir in yngyl im. Translated into English, they read, "Maegnas is my name, I am the spider's bane." According to the Appendix of The Silmarillion, the element maeg in Sindarin means "sharp" or "piercing".<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> The film version of Sting is Template:Convert long (24 while in scabbard) and Template:Convert wide at the hilt. Its scabbard is made of brown leather and reinforced with metal.Template:Sfn

Named bows and arrowsEdit

BelthrondingEdit

Belthronding (Sindarin/Ilkorin: Intractable Bow<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>) is the bow wielded by Beleg Cúthalion (Strongbow) in The Silmarillion and The Lays of Beleriand.<ref name="burdge" /><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb, p. 26, 117, 127</ref>

Black arrowEdit

The black arrow was used in Esgaroth by Bard the Bowman; he mentions that it has been used many times, always successfully, and always recovered. An heirloom from many generations of Bard's family, that he believed had been made in the forges of the King under the Mountain; Bard recites its history, urges it to "go now and speed well", and shoots Smaug. It was lost with the Dragon's corpse in the Long Lake.<ref name="Fire and Water" group=T/>

DailirEdit

Dailir is the arrow favoured by Beleg, the great bowman of the First Age of Middle-earth. Beleg was always able to retrieve this arrow for reuse.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref>

Red ArrowEdit

The Red Arrow is a black-feathered arrow barbed with steel; its tip was painted red.<ref name="Muster" group=T>Template:Harvnb, book 5, ch. 3 "The Muster of Rohan"</ref> It was a token used by Gondor to summon Rohan in time of dire need. In The Return of the King, the Red Arrow was presented to Théoden by Hirgon with the message: "...the Lord Denethor asks for all your strength and all your speed, lest Gondor should fall at last."<ref name="Muster" group=T/> Théoden pledged his assistance, but Hirgon was killed during the ride back to Minas Tirith, leading Denethor to believe that no help was forthcoming from Rohan. The Red Arrow has a historical antecedent in the Old English poem Elene in which Constantine the Great summoned an army of mounted Visigoths to his aid against the Huns by sending an arrow as a "token of war".<ref>Cynewulf, Elene, lines 43–45</ref>

Other named weapons and armourEdit

AeglosEdit

Aeglos (Sindarin: Snow Point, i.e. icicle;<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> also spelt Aiglos) is the spear wielded by the Elf-King Gil-galad. It was said that "the Spear of Gil-galad and the Sword of Elendil, Aiglos and Narsil, none could withstand."<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb; Template:Harvnb, p. 148, 417</ref>Template:Efn

Dragon-helm of Dor-lóminEdit

The Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin, also called the Helm of Hador, is the fabulous helmet of the lords of the House of Hador, including Húrin and Túrin.<ref name="burdge"/> The helm was made of heavy steel, decorated with gold and runes; a gold likeness of Glaurung the Dragon was set upon its crest. It was made for the Dwarf-king Template:Visible anchor by Telchar, the great Dwarf-craftsman of Nogrod.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, part 1 "The Lay of the Children of Húrin", second version ch. 2, p. 115, line 678</ref> Azaghâl ruled the neighbouring city of Belegost; he gave it to Maedhros, who gave it to Fingon. Fingon then gave it to Hador, along with the lordship of Dor-lómin.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, part 1 ch. II p. 75</ref>

Axe of TuorEdit

The Axe of Tuor, called Dramborleg (Gnomish: Thudder-Sharp)<ref name=thuddersharp>Template:Harvnb Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales – Part II", entry "Dramborleg"</ref> in The Book of Lost Tales, is the great axe belonging to Tuor, son of Huor in Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth<ref name="burdge"/> that left wounds like "both a heavy dint as of a club and cleft as a sword".<ref name=thuddersharp/> It was later held by the Kings of Numenor, until lost in the downfall.<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, p. 172; Template:Harvnb (vol. 2), "The Fall of Gondolin"</ref>

Durin's AxeEdit

Durin's Axe was part of the regalia and weaponry of the Dwarf-kings of Khazad-dûm. Some years before the War of the Ring, Balin attempted to recolonize Khazad-dûm (by then called Moria), and the early records of the colony mention Durin's Axe, indicating it was sought for or even found.<ref name="The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" group=T/>

GrondEdit

Grond (Sindarin: Club) is the mace of Morgoth used against Fingolfin in The Silmarillion<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb</ref> as well as a battering ram in The Lord of the Rings,<ref name="burdge"/><ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, p. 112</ref> used to assault the Great Gate of Minas Tirith. Grond the battering ram was in-universe named after Morgoth's mace: "Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old."<ref group=T>Template:Harvnb, book 5, ch. 4 "The Siege of Gondor".</ref>

Film prop constructionEdit

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In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, "hero" weapons, used for "beauty" shots such as close-ups, were made from high-quality materials: sword blades from heat-treated spring steel; sword hilts from cast bronze or forged and ground steel. "Stunt" swords, used in combat scenes, were made with soft aluminium blades and urethane grips. "Extras" swords were cast entirely from urethane, in one piece. Bows were made of urethane with an inner armature of spring steel. Legolas's arrows were all-digital, so the actor simply mimed shooting each arrow.<ref name="Woosnam-Savage 2011">Template:Harvnb</ref>

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