What would you name your special magic sword in Middle Earth?

[Ithirahad]

I'd name it after the first badass thing I did with it, so... Nameless for now.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Well, that, or "Fred".

 

[Olorgando]

"Ouch" - I think that's ambiguous enough.

 

[Gothmog]

Best name I have heard for a sword is "Kindness".


After all, we have a habit of Killing with Kindness

 

[ulfang]

just going to go with a classic here

stormbringer

 

[Hisoka Morrow]

Pigs-butcher, as everyone targeted will be slaughtered like pigs XDD

 

[Ealdwyn]

Mr Stabby

 

[Olorgando]

just going to go with a classic here

stormbringer

Eh? That's a Deep Purple album (OK, from 47 years ago) ...

 

[ulfang]

Seriously?
I just said it was classic classic because in pretty much every fantasy universe there seems to be a sword called storm bringer, except Tolkien

 

[Olorgando]

Seriously, yes, it is the title of the 1974 album by Deep Purple, the second of the so-called "Mark III" lineup, in which bassist Roger Glover and singer Ian Gillian had been replaced by Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale, respectively.

And my memory can't be that bad yet, because "Stormbringer" immediately had the name Elric pop up in my mind. As in Elric of Melniboné, the lead character in Michael Moorcock's 1965 novel titled "Stormbringer", after the name of Elric's sword. I hesitate to call Elric the "hero"; while he's not a confirmed "antihero", he's certainly an ambivalent hero. I have an episode featuring Elric in some graphic novel stuff somewhere, and also a short story (or an excerpt of a longer one) in a compilation of stories collected by two German editors (so not just a translation of an English compilation) originally in 2005, and reprinted in 2012 as a paperback, titled (in my translation) "Tolkien's Legacy". The original Elric story is from 1977, Moorcock's original title for it being "Kings in Darkness (The Bane Of The Black Sword)".

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Fun fact (or so I read back then😁): sometime in the 60's, Moorcock did some market research that showed that books with phallic symbols in the titles sold better, so he started producing books like "The Bull and the Spear", "The Stallion and the Sword", and so on. I guess it worked. 😂

 

[Jorlan Elükar]

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Well, that, or "Fred".

It's either Romana or Fred!

Sword: Nevermore
Axe: LimbSplitter
Hammer: HelmCrusher
Pickaxe: ChestPiercer
Bow/Crossbow: DeadEye or Sharpshot