The Greatest Weapon

[Wulažg]

As an Angband fanatic, I know a ton about the Tolkien weapons. Okay, Aglachel was forged by èol in Gondolin from meteoric iron. It is a cool weapon. Glamdrig, Orcrist, and Sting WERE made in Gondolin for the Goblin wars as it says in the Hobbit when they found them from the trolls. My personal favorites however are:

Ringil, which smote seven fearsom blows on Morgoth himself by Fingolfin

Zarcuthra, the biggest sword on Middle Earth, made by Celebrimbor

Aeglos, the frost spear of Gilgalad

Arundil, previously called Narsil, which chopped off Sauron's hand

Beat those!

[Wulažg]

Oh yeah I forgot about Angrist which chopped through the Crown of Morgoth.

[Elf Girl]

Hi, Wulažg. Welcome to Entmoot.

[Aragorn_iz_cool]

Glamdring. It must have been a great sword indeed for gandalf to chose it above all other swords he had acsess too.

[Wulažg]

Well, it might just be because he already had Narya and wanted a weapon that was already associated with fire, as opposed to Orcrist which is more frost related(at least in Angband)

[azalea]

It's surprising that he didn't already have one since he'd been in ME so long already. Maybe it was an exceptionally exquisite sword, or maybe he was just ready for a change.

[Varda Oiolosseo]

The best weapon has got to be the Bow and Arrow!!!

[Ñólendil]

Welcome Varda. Interesting choice of name, "Varda 'from-Mount-Everwhite'". Why did you choose it?

[Finrod Felagund]

Originally posted by Thorondor
Hold on...Sting glows bright red at Weathertop, but perhaps this was a change in Frodo's sight since he was wearing the ring at the time.

Frodo didn't have sting at weathertop. Bilbo gave it to him later.


How about Morgoth's Grond for a weapon.
Sauron's Grond wasn't really a combat weapon but a seige weapon.
Anduril, also and interesting story. Forged as Narsil in the first age by Telchar, the same dwarf who forged Angrist, the knife that Beren used to cut the silmaril from Morgoth's crown.

Another good weapon, Angrist could cut iron...

[elendili]

I believe that the ONE Ring is not a weapon on it's own because it does not do any damage to your foe.

How come in the film when Sauron appears on the battlefield the ring is powerful enough to swipe away 2 groups of elves and men? That sounds like a cool weapon to me especially coz it makes you invisible.

[Radagast The Brown]

but Sauron wasn't invisible when he had it.

maybe it gave Sauron so much power because the ring had almost all Sauron's powers, so he could use the ring better.

[elendili]

Maybe if you learn to master the ring you can harness its power to kill things and you are only invisible if you choose to be?

[Radagast The Brown]

Maybe, and maybe not. I don't think so... but...

[Mordomin]

Originally posted by Wulažg
As an Angband fanatic, I know a ton about the Tolkien weapons. Okay, Aglachel was forged by èol in Gondolin from meteoric iron.

Anglachel was not made in Gondolin, it was made in Nan Elmoth.

Originally posted by Wulažg
Arundil, previously called Narsil, which chopped off Sauron's hand. Beat those!

Isildur didn't cut off Sauron's hand with the shards of Narsil, only the Ring finger.

I know I'm going to regret asking this but...is 'Angband' some sort of RPG or message board or something (besides the evil land in Tolkien's writings, I mean)?

[Eldanuumea]

Originally posted by elendili


How come in the film when Sauron appears on the battlefield the ring is powerful enough to swipe away 2 groups of elves and men? That sounds like a cool weapon to me especially coz it makes you invisible.

That scene is only in the PJ film, not in the text.

[elendili]

That scene is only in the PJ film, not in the text.

Okay I'm getting the film and book confuzzled again damn it

But the Ring is still really powerful and you could control all the other rings so all the other kindreds

Anyway I fancy Legolas's bow and quiver especially with the arrows of Lothlorien

[Eldanuumea]

Originally posted by elendili


Okay I'm getting the film and book confuzzled again damn it

But the Ring is still really powerful and you could control all the other rings so all the other kindreds

Anyway I fancy Legolas's bow and quiver especially with the arrows of Lothlorien

Hey, it's very easy to do! Since I had not read them before the film, I often catch myself remembering a film scene as if it were in the text!
Bows and arrows are definitely cool.....low tech, high skill.

[Radagast The Brown]

I guess the ring didn't have such a power, but it did gave Sauron lots of powers and skills becuase he got in to this ring almost all his power.

[elendili]

Too many rings and powers in that Radagast!

What actual powers did the rings of the Nazgul give to them coz you seem to know a lot of ringlore

[Jador]

Originally posted by Wayfarer
[B]Because, foul spirited though it might be, it was still an awsome weapon. It's the middle earth equivilent to the 'cursed blade' that all mmorpg's seem to have... outrageously powerful, but dangerous to wield.

After all, Anglachel could 'cleave earth-wrought metal like bitter' (loose paraphrase). That goes for armor (pretty nice) , weapons (slice thier sword in half with a parry) and other interesting things.

Other interesting thing's like the fact that It killed everyone who was touched by it.(Including Glaurung.)That is tops for me...