Without a doubt, The Lord of the Rings is one of the best fantasy epics in movie history. The number of characters and magical weapons that appear in it is impressive. Although this magical epic is based on Western stories such as “Dragon” and “The Ring”, Western audiences are more invested in the magical world inside. When Chinese or Asian audiences see it, they are also shocked by the stories and strange characters in it.

In particular, through this movie, the audience can see powerful weapons with magic. These weapons, some can emit light to destroy monsters, some can spray flames, some can summon the dead and so on. Making the audience curious about the story behind these weapons. Let’s have a brief introduction to the interesting weapon story.

Grond

The “Grond” is mentioned in the Silmarillion, an ancient warhammer forged by the dark Lord Morgoth. The giant hammer body is made from the core of Arda’s creation and tempered with black magic to make it appear without any luster. Around the body of the hammer, all the way down to the grip, there are inscriptions in the Vira language (Morgoth made a slight change to the Vira language, and later Sauron is thought to have borrowed this change to design the Black Speech).

The Grond was so large and heavy that no mortal could wield it, or even lift it. Every stroke of Morgoth’s Grond caused lightning to crackle in the air, and smoke and flames rose from every crater that had been smashed into the earth.

In the first age 455 years, at the War of the Fire, Morgoth held Grond in front of the gate of Angband, fighting against the High King of the Ñoldor elves, Fingolfin. Although the High King avoided most of the attacks with his dexterous body, he finally lost his strength and died under the Grond.

Wolf Head Battering Ram

Many believe that the hammer wielded by Sauron, who later succeeded Morgoth, was Grond, but there is no basis for this. But Sauron did honor his old leader by naming the giant wolf head battering ram of Minas Tirith Siege after Grond.

The battering ram was cast from the black iron of Mordor and was more than a hundred feet long. Its head was carved into the shape of a Wolf’s head, its mouth was blazing and it was said to be endowed with some destructive spell. Because it was so heavy, the battering ram needed to be pulled by several wild beasts from the Easterlings tribe, and the battering ram was swung by mountain trolls.

Ringil

Ringil is the sword of the afore-mentioned High King of the Ñoldor, Fingolfin, which is said to have been forged by the Ñoldor artisans under the guidance of Aulë in Valinor . The pale body of the sword is like the stars twinkling in the cold night sky, hence the name “Glittered Like Ice“.

Fingolfin carried Ringil to battle with Morgoth in the War of the Fire, although facing the degraded Valar, the High King did not fall, and used Ringil to hurt Morgoth several times. But in the end Fingolfin was trampled by Morgoth because of his lack of strength, and even then the High King wielded Ringil to stab the left foot of Dark Lord.

After killing Fingolfin, Morgoth wanted to insult his body and throw it to the wolves of his army, but Thorondor, the eagle king, came and took Fingolfin’s body back to Gondolin. Ringil was left on the battlefield, was kept by Morgoth. Dark creatures could not use elf artifacts, so no one ever saw the legendary sword again.

Anglachel

These are tragic swords, forged from meteorite. The swordmaker master Eöl of Dark Elf forged them. Eöl is also known as the “Dark Elf”, on the one hand, because his ethnic group Sindar elves did not choose to cross west to the immortal land to receive the light of the Two Trees of Valinor; On the other hand, because Eöl’s character is gloomy, does not like to communicate with people, always wearing black clothes and hiding alone in the shadows.

After forging two swords, Eöl expressed his desire to leave his people and live alone to the then king Thingol of the Sindar (which was the ultimate misfit). Thingol agreed, but asked him to keep one of his two swords, and the helpless Eöl left Anglachel with his own people. Reputedly, Eöl have cast a vicious curse on Anglachel before handing it over.

Anglachel and Anguirel (two swords) are made of meteorite, so they look a little black, lack of luster. May be the reason of the curse of Eöl, Anglachel compared to his twin brother to be darker, and black so shiny, people describe as if there is a flame beating on the sword, also called this as “Black Sword”.

Later, the Elven king Thingol gave the Black Sword to the strongbow Beleg Cúthalion, and asked him to take it to find a legendary human warrior of the time, Thingol’s adopted son, Túrin Turambar. He was tormented and imprisoned by Orcs at the time. Túrin accidentally was hurted by Beleg with the Black Sword while trying to free him. In a trance, Túrin mistakenly killed Beleg, mistook Beleg for an orc (or possibly under the influence of Eöl’s curse).

Realizing that his old friend had died under his sword, Túrin fell into extreme despair and madness, and gradually recovered after a long recuperation. At the same time, the Black Sword that killed his friends seems to be no longer alive, the sword body has become dull, no longer has the black shiny luster of the past, as if consciously mourning for the tragedy that it caused.

Anguirel

Anguirel is twin brother of Anglachel, and own sword of Eöl. It was forged from a piece of meteorite that fell from the sky. It could split any iron dug out of the earth, and was used by Eöl as his sword until his son Maeglin stole it. It is assumed that Maeglin stole the sword when he and his mother Aredhel left Nan Elmoth for Gondolin.

Eöl pursued to Gondolin to bring back his wife and children, but they refused. Angry, Eöl threw a poisoned javelin at her son, only to be thwarted by Aredhel, whose venom killed her, and Eöl condemned to death by the then King of Gondolin, was thrown from a cliff on the north side of Gondolin.

Maeglin continued to learn his father’s skills and became an excellent swordmaker, but was ambushed by orcs while out in search of a mine, and was captured and taken back to Angband. When Morgoth promised him that he would rule Gondolin on his behalf, Maeglin revealed all of Gondolin’s defensive strategies to the Dark Lord and became his insider. His actions had a lot to do with the fall of Gondolin.

Having betrayed his people, Maeglin was thrown from the walls of Gondolin by another human hero Tuor. Maeglin met the same fate as his father. And Anguirel in his hand fell with him, without a trace.

Gurthang

Túrin then took the Black Sword to Nargothrond, where Sindar elven craftsmen recreated it, and Túrin officially named it Gurthang, or the “Iron of Death.”

Morgoth’s ancestry dragon, Glaurung, was ravaging Nargothrond, and Túrin armed with Gurthang ambushed Glaurung in the Cabed-en-Aras. As its bulky body passed through the canyon, Túrin struck it fatally, but the venomous blood in dragon body caused him to fall unconscious beside the dragon. Túrin’s wife came to the canyon to find him, but was told by the dragon that she was Túrin’s blood-related sister. Finally, she couldn’t accept the fact and jumped down the valley.

Túrin woke up was rescued by his friend Brandir. When Brandir tries to explain to Túrin what happened to his wife, Turin goes mad again, mentioning Gurthang to killed Brandir. Faced with the multiple blows of fate, he could not continue to live in this world, so he pulled out the “iron of death” for the last time, inserted the sword handle upside down on the ground, and threw himself at the sword body.

Gurthang was also broken into countless pieces under Túrin and buried with the legendary hero.

Dramborleg

It is the battle-axe of the aforementioned human hero Tuor, built by the elven artisans of Gondolin, who played a major role in the defense of Gondolin.

The legendary human warrior armed with Dramborleg, defeated down three Balrogs. He used huge & heavy axe easily splitting the Balrogs’ armors, tearing them from the inside. All defendors could see the Balrogs fall one by one around the human warrior.

With the fall of Gondolin, Tuor and some of the survivors withdrew. The axe was then passed on to his grandson, Elros, the founding king of Númenor, and became a symbol of the royal family. In 3319, the Second era, the battle-axe was buried with the sinking of Númenor Island.

Belthronding

This is a yew longbow, held by the aforementioned “Strongbow” Beleg Cúthalion, who is considered to be the greatest archer in Elven history and is responsible for many of the Elven archery techniques and archer training regulations.

Beleg was also a close friend of Túrin and was accidentally killed in the attempt to rescue him, and Belthronding was buried alongside him.

Dagmor

Dagmer belonged to Beren Erchamion‘s sword, but we don’t know much about it, other than that Beren went to Angband to steal the Silmarils in order to prove his love for Lúthien, the daughter of Sindar King Thingol. With this sword, he killed many of Morgoth’s minions.

Angrist

Angrist originally belonged to a Ñoldor elven prince Curufin, but when he failed to murder Beren and kidnap Lúthien, Angrist was seized by Beren. Beren and Lúthien were able to pry the Silmarils from Morgoth’s crown through the knife, but as they tried to dig further, the blade broke, striking the sleeping Morgoth, and the two fled Angband with only one .

Aranrúth

The sword of the Sindar King Thingol. It have been crafted by dwarven artisans from Belegost. After Thingol was assassinated by a group of dwarven artisans who craved the silmarils, the sword was passed to Dior, the aforementioned son of Beren and Lúthien. Since Beren was originally a human, Dior can be considered the first half-elf in history, and many humans and elves began to associate and produce offspring, and many famous heroes later were half-elves.

Aranrúth was subsequently acquired by Dior’s daughter Elwing and given to her son Elros, the founding king of Númenor, who later became a symbol of Númenor’s royal family, along with the legendary battle-axe Dramborleg, but was lost to the sea as the island sank.

Black Arrow

The weapon of Ereinion Gil-galad, the High king of the Ñoldor elves in the Second Age, took part in the War of the Last Alliance with its master, but in the war, Ereinion Gil-galad was killed by Sauron, and the weapon was taken into Sauron’s Treasury, and has not been found since.

It was forged by Girion, the ancestor of Bard. The last Lord of Dale, who borrowed Dwarven smelting techniques on the Lonely Mountain to forge this invincible Black Arrow.

Although Girion was killed by the dragon Smaug, his descendants survived, and they kept the black arrows of their ancestors when they passed down to Bard. During Smaug’s slaughter of Lake-Town, Bard managed to strike the dragon with a weak spot in the black arrow, killing the dragon and earning Bard the title of dragon slayer.

Glamdring

It was a long sword that glowed white and gold. Glamdring can be identified as having been owned by Turgon, the High king of the Ñoldor (second son of Fingolfin).

Turgon used Glamdring to kill many enemies in the defense of Gondolin. Many orcs died under his sword, and the orcs remembered what it looked like. But Turgon was killed in battle when Gondolin fell, and the sword was never found.

Glamdring then became Gandalf‘s sword, which was very handy to him and won many battles. One of the most famous was when Gandalf faced the Balrog alone on the bridge as Fellowship of the Ring fled Moria. He summoned the Flame of Anor to cast upon Glamdring, blocking the Balrog’s sword and shattering it to pieces. He then fell with the Balrog to the center of the Earth, and Gandalf continued to fight the Balrog on the endless stairs with Glamdring, until he stabbed it in the heart and killed it at the top of Caradhras. After the War of the Ring, Gandalf took Glamdring which had been with him for more than eighty years, to the West.

Orcrist

One of the three swords found with Glamdring, but the previous owner is uncertain. But judging by the horror with which goblins and orcs saw the weapon, it must have belonged to someone who had also done great feats in battle, and who must have been one of the Elven lords who fell in the defense of Gondolin.

After being found in the cave, Thorin Oakenshield who happened to lack a hand weapon, obtained it, and soon after, he used Orcrist to slaughter all over the goblin cave.

Thorin was wounded in the Battle of Five Armies and was brought back to Erebor, then dead of his wounds. Elven King Thranduil recovered Orcrist from the battlefield and returned it to Thorin’s people, who placed it in the tomb of Thorin Oakenshield in honor of the great dwarven warrior.

Sting

Like Orcrist, the Sting cannot be identified as the original user, but the size of the weapon suggests that it may have been the short blade of a nobleman of the time, or the sword of a female elven noblewoman.

After its discovery, Gandalf gave the Sting to Bilbo, and it became one of the most important weapons affecting the situation in Middle-Earth.

In the tunnels of the Misty Mountains, Bilbo armed with the Ring, had a chance to kill Gollum, but Sting did not glow as blue as it did when he encountered the goblin, causing Bilbo to suspect that the creature in front of him might not be a goblin, so there Bilbo spared Gollum and left the door open for future stories.

Later, Bilbo used Sting to save his companions and drive away the spiders in the Dark Forest, and that is when the sword got its name “Sting”.

After Sting being given to Frodo who was the Ring-Bearer, the sword also protected its master. After Frodo was captured by the Orcs, Sam used it to wound Shelob and kill an Orc, and rescue Frodo from the tower of Cirith Ungol.

After the War of the Ring ended, Frodo went west and left Sting to Sam, a family heirloom of Samwise Gamgee.

Andúril

This last sword is the most famous Sword of Kings, which was originally owned by Elendil, leader of the Númenor Loyalists and founder of the Kingdom of Arnor. He was killed by Sauron in the final Battle of the Alliance at the end of the Second Era. His son Isildur picked up the broken sword of Narsil near his father’s body and cut off Sauron’s finger. Sauronwho had lost the One Ring, fled into invisibility, and the Elves and the human Alliance army won a tragic victory.

At the beginning of the Third Era, Isildur and his convoy were ambushed by orcs in the Gladden Fields, and Isildur gave the fragment of the sword to one of his adjutants before dying. The adjutant escaped with the fragment to Rivendell, where it was given to Isildur’s son Valandil.

But then things took a turn for the worse in the north, when Arnor was destroyed and the Númenóreans bloodline could not be verified, Elrond took the sword fragments back to Rivendell for safekeeping. The young Aragorn had been in foster care in Rivendell, and Elrond gave him the fragments of the sword of Narsil, the symbol of King Arnor’s power, while telling him his true identity. Aragorn has been traveling with it in the Middle Earth ever since.

After being warned by Gandalf about the One Ring, Aragorn believed that a great war was about to break out in Middle-Earth, and with the help of Elven craftsmen, he recreated Narsil and named his reborn sword Andúril, meaning “Flame of the West“.

In subsequent battles, from the defense of Helm’s Deep, to the siege of Minas Tirith, to the final Battle of the Morannon, Andúril was struck so many times at the hands of Aragorn that the sword was still strong and tough.

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