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What's your favorite magic sword from any Tolkien story ?

No doubt my favourite weapon is Aeglos -my only and greatest spear!
About swords:I think that Gurthang is the greatest weapon ever.Why?
Beleg kills so many orcs with him,then dies, killed by Turin and Gurthang.Turin becomes famous as Mormegil,because of his sword and finally that's the sword which kills Glaurung.
 
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I am sooo not sure, But I would have 2 say sting. But ya a broken sword would be kinda interesting to play with, I dunno what u would do with it though?
 
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I gotta pick just ONE!?!?!?!?!??????!!!! SHOOT!!!!!!!!!!! Well........ I'll say.. forgive me all the other swords..... STING *Runs away*
 
STING! STING! STING! STING!

Sting is the best!
Better than the rest!
Goooooooooooo Sting!!!



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I am going to have to go with Anguirel. It cuts through iron and it was forged from an iron meteroite. What could be cooler?
 
Posted by ithrynluin
I like Glamdring the best, Gandalf killed the balrog with it
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Sorry you are wrong ithrynluin, Gandalf did not kill the Balrog with Glamdring rather he threw him off of the Mountain. You might want to reread that part it is in TT chapter 5.
 

Well Mithrandir2003,you might want to start taking things less literally.I should have said "Gandalf USED Glamdring to kill the balrog"

(FOTR,"The bridge of Khazad-Dum)

To me,this implies that Glamdring DID have something to do with the downfall of Balrog,despite the fact that Gandalf had to put forth all his might and inner strength to finally defeat it.
 
I guess you could say that Glamdring had a little bit to do with Gandalf beating the Balrog but it did not slay it.


As you can see Gandalf kills the Balrog by throwing him from the mountain. Glamdring only played a minor part at the beginning and after Gandalf falls into the abyss Glamdring is no longer mentioned.
 
I would say Ringil, Fingolfin's sword. It has injured Morgoth seven times; what other sword could claim that?
Besides, it has something none of the others mentioned have: it was forged in Valinor. Ha!
 
I second Ringil, no other sword can come close to matching that feat.

Anglachel (Gurthang) has the best story though...

Grr
 
eol gave the weaker angleachel to thingle and it boke asunder by turins fall. it was a cursed sword with spells of ruin to all but its true master, eol. in dworvish runes of power did the sword hold its bond to its master and friend of telcher himself. and eol most gifted in metals as was meglin his son and pupil. but angleachel was but an essay to anguirel wich was never destroyed or broken. but was taken in the sack of gondolin or lost in the dumping of eol from turgons castel wall. no more is said abought the second black sword. but it was said to cut tempered steal like butter. and was as light as mithrill.
 
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Anguirel's history is far more mysterious. The only specific detail we have is that Eöl kept it for himself, but it was stolen by his son Maeglin. This must have happened when Maeglin and his mother Aredhel fled Nan Elmoth for Gondolin, so presumably the sword was taken to Turgon's Hidden City. What became of it after that is unknown.
 
i huant a lot of post nodes. i am the "wight wraith", a free spirit with no master. i am 7doubles, the 7th son, 7 fours. need i say more?....dominos
 
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