#narsil
The Orcs were now drawing near. Isildur turned to his esquire: ‘Ohtar,’ he said, 'I give this now into your keeping’; and he delivered to him the great sheath and the shards of Narsil, Elendil’s sword. 'Save it from capture by all means that you can find, and at all costs; even at the cost of being held a coward who deserted me. Take your companion with you and flee! Go! I command you!’ Then Ohtar knelt and kissed his hand, and the two young men fled down into the dark valley.
–J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales, “The Disaster of the Gladden Fields" (Isildur sends Narsil away during an ambush, hours before his death)
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April Tolkien Challenge; Day 6
Andúril
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Andúril (or “Flame of the West”) is the sword that Aragorn II Elessar wielded in the infamous Lord of the Rings books. The blade was reforged from the shards of Narsil, which was the sword of King Erendil, used by his son Isildur to cut the One Ring off of Sauron’s hand.
Aragorn carried the blade with him the entire length on the journey to Mordor, after it was reforged by the elves of Rivendell when the Council of Lord Elrond had ended. Upon arriving in Lothlorién after Gandalf’s supposed death, Lady Galadriel gave the man a sheath for the blade, as a gift for the oncoming journey.
Later, in Rohan, Aragorn showed his sword to justify his words and show his heritage to Éomer. With the weapon, he reclaimed his heritage and rights to the throne of Gondor in Return of the King.
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Sources:
-One Wiki To Rule Them All, Andúril
-One Wiki To Rule Them All, Narsil
-Tolkien Gateway, Andúril
-The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien
-Return of the King, JRR Tolkien
Middle-earth March - Day 3
J.R.R. Tolkien considered “The Silmarillion” as the core of his Legendarium. In a letter from 1965 he wrote: “The Silmarillion is quite different, and if good at all, good in quite another way; & I do not really know what to make of it. It began in hospital and sick-leave (1916-1917) and has been with me ever since, and is now in a confused state having been altered, enlarged, and worked at, at intervals between then and now.” It had occupied him basically through his entire adult life and having been the perfectionist that he was, he never really finished it for publication. Thanks to his son Christopher, we’re able to read these marvelous stories and adventures that form the First Age of Middle-earth.
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Drawing challenge Day 1 : Sword
Sting (The Hobbit) : Ornate dagger which glows in the presence of orcsorgoblins, and is supernaturally strong. Bilbo uses it to fight off the giant spiders in Mirkwood, and names the blade after the talking spiders refer to it as his “sting”.
Narsil ( The Lord of The Rings) : Narsil was the powerful sword wielded by Elendil, during the war between the Last Alliance of Elves and MenandSauronofMordor, at the end of the Second Age. The shards of Narsil were passed down as an heirloom by the heirs to the throne of Arnor among the Dúnedain of the North. The sword’s last owner was Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
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