Glomdring, Orchrist, Sting, Artifacts of Middle Earth.

The grand majority of fantasy universes are filled with unique, often magical, and always

impressive artifacts, ranging from spectacularly named swords to supernatural objects,

and Tolkien's legendarium is once again no different.

Well, perhaps the overall number of such artifacts in Middle Earth is somewhat low when compared to other fictional universes,

that doesn't make them any less special.

We won't go over every named weapon or artifact in Tolkien's works here, but I hope to cover the major ones. First, let's discuss weapons. One of the oldest legendary weapons in Middle Earth was

Morgoth's great hammer, Grand, also called the Hammer of the Underworld. It was only

featured in a single fight in Morgoth's duel against the Elven King Fingulfin.

The hammer was said to cause great fiery pits to appear whenever it struck the ground,

accompanied by a small earthquake.

Much later, Sauron's forces used a tremendous battering ram to destroy the great gate of Minishtyrr,

and they called it Grand to evoke the memory of

Morgoth's weapon. During the first age, an elf named Aol became friends with a clan of dwarves

and learned their craft. He would most notably use a fallen meteorite to craft two swords,

both black and capable of cutting through iron. One of these, Anglachl,

ended up being given to King Thingol as a begrudged payment. Aol hated the Noldor elves and

blame them for the return of Morgoth, and his malice and spite were imbued into the sword.

Thingle refused to use the sword, and instead Turin Tarambar's friend chose the weapon when

going to search for his friend after his capture.

Due to the malice in the blade, and possibly acting with sentience, the blade pricked Turin

during his rescue, and Turin slew his friend in surprise.

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