Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25931200-20190129220745/@comment-30830745-20190130182354

Ruscion Pandox wrote: Samoja1 wrote: I find the idea of legendary swords particularly interesting, and in ME it is very interesting indeed to see how such blades are treated, Glamdring, Orchrist and Sting are Gondolinian blades, which in Tolkien's legendarium puts them squarely above Arnorian swords like Barrow blades, i am not sure where exactly Anduril falls in this hierarchy, it is clearly powerful sword in it's own right and it was refirged by the Elves of Rivendel who are refugees from Gondolin, so it may match them in strength or it may not, but Sting is clearly shown to be superior to barrow blades, even though barrow blades are clearly superior to contemporary weapons of ME, i think this fits in nicely with Tolkien's idea of decaying world, with Gondolinian swords (which i believe are first age) being more powerful then barrow blades (which i think are second age) but barrow blades being superior to the ones made in the third age, just an interesting thing i noticed. Rivendell is not Gondolin refugees, They are Eregion refugees.

Great Hunter  Message me...or dont, i do not control you. Well, Glorfindel was (in his first incarnation, IF he ever reincarnated) one of the Gondolinrim, but he wasn't a smith. Andúril is probably work of Westernesse and has massive value because it is the one sword that ever managed to injure Sauron. It would be above Barrow-blades, but below Gondolinian Weapons.

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