Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26444332-20160330162225/@comment-26444332-20160414072601

LysurusPeriphragmoides789 wrote: Not to be that kind of person, but I think that the battlestaff looks a bit plain. It may be more effective in battle, but it doesn't look as glamorous as the rest of your designs. Additionally, it looks a little too different from the three current battlestaves, which have larger blades. I also see you added the glowing textures for the sword and dagger. Nice work!

L.P.789  Lord of the Arthropods  (send message) I do not think you saw the first textures, then, sirrah, in the same light I see them. For I see them as effective first, beautiful second. All the gold, decór, jewels, and engravings on your weapons will not save you when an angered Balrog or horde from the horror-filled pits of Angband come charging into Tumladen. All my weapons, if you look closely, are "plain", as you so aptly put it: Only the colors deceive you into thinking them bedecked. If they are elegant, it is because they are useful.

On your second point, I shall say that the Gondolindrim were a folk apart, sundered from their kin for many a year in the First Age. It is only reasonable that their weapons would have differed somewhat.

On the third point, I had those textures already made from the moment of conception. I simply did not post them to both save space and not flood the Wiki's image base.