sting

Have you ever read or heard of a reason Tolkien gave Bibo’s sword the name Sting (other than the obvious: that it was used to kill spiders)? I’ve noticed a similarity to an important ship in British history, and I’m wondering if this has been noticed or discussed before. Summary (note the...

I know they ditched the cooking gear and all and had lost their armor and had stolen orc armor (which I think they might have ditched as well to lighten the load.). But I could have sworn that in Frodo's confrontation with Gollum outside the Crack of Doom that he threatened Smeagol with his...

As the title says. We can only speculate, but which one do you think or prefer?

Good day, my fair friends! I am a young upstart filmmaker and writer, and I am working on a fan film called Sting. It deals with a few(about four) rangers scouring Middle-earth for Sting after the final battle, (since we never see it with Sam and Frodo after the ring goes bye bye,) I plan for...

The following question has occurred to me several times when the topic of Glamdring glowing in the presence of orcs has come up in the movie sections. First, some quick background. We all know that Sting and Glamdring (and Orcrist) are elven blades from the Elder Days and glow in the presence...

The Sting presented in TLOTR movies shows an inscription bearing its name. The inscription is in Tengwar (mode of Beleriand) and reads, "Maegnas aen estar nín - dagnir in yngyl im". The "poetic" translation being, "Sting is my name, I am the Spiders bane". Where does this inscription (according...

I'm in the middle of "Riddles In The Dark", and I don't know if I missed something, or if it is explained later... Why doesn't Elrond look at Sting like he does Orcrist and Glamdring? I've read The Hobbit before, and I'm reading The Annotated Hobbit; and so far, there has been no (other)...

Anti-geek Shaun (my long-suffering boyfriend) has a question for all you Tolkienites! Why does Shelob have a sting? Don't spiders bite their victims and thereby paralyse them? Here's a snippet from the Encarta website: So did Tolkien get his biology wrong?

After the War of the Ring what happened to sting? Did it pass across the sea with Frodo?

Who forged Sting, Glamdring, and Orchrist (spelling?). Does anyone know their history other than they were found in the Trollshaws (how did they get there?)? I think they were forged by elves? Anything else? JoA