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dark-enchanted-forest · 3 months

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All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.

Print in my Etsy shop.

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illustratus · 11 months

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Illustration by Jonathan Burton

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tolkienillustrations · 7 months

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Telchar Forging Narsil by Donato Giancola

#Silmarillion #LOTR #Tolkien #Telchar #Narsil #Donato Giancola

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savealifekillacop · 1 month

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feel this burning love of mine

#me #sunlight #narsil #it's a set but I somehow never manage to wear sets as a set #ily spring sun #i need to lay down in the grass and watch clouds for a while #moss agate

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superloves4 · 9 months

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Like, I'm sure Tolkien would make Narsil a sword that belongs to good guys and stuff, but the idea of Narsil being Maedhros sword (maybe even made by Fëanor himself) makes me so rabid.

Like, Elros taking the sword that caused so much pain, that belongs to someone he both loves and hates, and makes it into part of his own kingdom for the purpose of good.

That sword being then broken by Sauron and finally used to defeat him in its brokenness (something, something, the redemption in battle that Mae never gets, something, something, symbolism).

And its shard then reforged into Anduril.

Flame of the West.

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keelifallen · 2 years

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#Renewed shall be blade that was broken The crownless again shall be king #Aragorn #gandalf #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr fanart #the fellowship of the ring #the two towers #return of the king #viggo mortensen #narsil #tolkien #illustration #design #tw blood #artists on tumblr #keelidraws #also anyone watching rings of power?#cuz ngl I’m down bad for isildur’s dad

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czarnoxiestwo · 9 months

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I've tattooed this Narsil just a day before my LotR Director's Cut themed birthday party (we were just sitting, watching movies, and having a good time)

#black work tattoo #bw tattoo #fantasy art #narsil #lotr #sword #my art

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lesbiansforboromir · 1 year

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What are your opinions on Narsil being Maedhros’s sword, then Elros’s and making its way to Elendil’s line?

Wait no wait hang on this is really funny... Narsil was Maedhros' sword and Elros stole it but it's like... five feet long and was completely unwieldable and languished in vaults for millenia UNTIL 7'11 Elendil picked it up like 'finally a sword made for ME' and this explains the question of 'how did they find all the shards of this damn sword in the middle of a fetid battlefield' they didn't... but the amount of shards they DID find was enough to reforge into a normal size damn sword. I'm consuming this concept into my internal canon.

#maedhros #elendil #chats #rightful-king-of-gondor #narsil #Telchar #erran vs tolkien

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dynamicdiplomacy · 2 years

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“Very bright was the sword of Narsil when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold. And so Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.”

Finished this cross stitch and it is definitely my favourite of all the ones I’ve ever made. The pattern I purchased online from the wonderful Helena, a Ukrainian pattern designer (link leads to their shop). Featuring part of the Riddle of Strider and (what I believe are) mallos flowers.

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Image description: the first image is of a cross stitch done on black cloth. Centered in the middle is Narsil, the sword that was broken from Lord of the Rings. On either side of it are two golden/orange flowers with green leaves and the quote “Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king” rendered in orange. The second image is a close-up of the cross stitch showing the detail of the flowers and leaves.

#lotr #narsil #anduril #aragorn #cross stitch #embroidery #needlecraft #my work #lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring

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willowandoakstudios · 7 months

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🗡️NEW🗡️

The new Narsil sticker is in my shop!

Take Narsil and it’s prophecy with you everywhere you go with this beautiful, holographic, vinyl sticker ✨

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gandalf-the-fool · 3 months

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asteroidaffection · 10 months

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new tattoo hard launch

#lotr #narsil #sword tattoo #biblically accurate asteroid

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haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted · 11 days

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The Reforging of the Sword by Darrel K Sweet

#Lord of the Rings #LotR #Middle Earth #Narsil #Anduril #Fantasy #Art #Darrel K Sweet

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ardafanonarch · 3 months

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Heirlooms of the Númenoreans: Aranrúth and Narsil

Swords of the First Age, Part 2 of 3

[This is a continuation of the response to this ask.]

Aranrúth

Meaning: King’s Ire. Sindarin.

Maker: Unknown. (See discussion.)

Owned/wielded by: Thingol, [Dior?], Elwing, Elros, the Kings of Númenor. (See discussion.)

Fate: Did not survive the downfall of Númenor (Unfinished Tales, ‘A Description of Númenor’, note 2).

Aranrúth. ‘King’s Ire’, the name of Thingol’s sword. Aranrúth survived the ruin of Doriath and was possessed by the Kings of Númenor. Index of The Silmarillion

‘I ask then for a sword of worth,’ said Beleg; ‘for the Orcs come now too thick and close for a bow only, and such blade as I have is no match for their armour.’ ‘Choose from all that I have,’ said Thingol, ‘save only Aranrúth, my own.’ The Silmarillion, ‘Of Túrin Turambar’

Discussion

We do not know who made Aranrúth. We do, however, know that the Sindar’s first weapons were forged by the Dwarves:

Therefore Thingol took thought for arms, which before his people had not needed, and these at first the Naugrim smithied for him; for they were greatly skilled in such work, though none among them surpassed the craftsmen of Nogrod, of whom Telchar the smith was greatest in renown. The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Sindar’

So potentially Aranrúth was forged by Dwarves, perhaps even Telchar.

There is another curious passage about Thingol’s armouries in The Children of Húrin:

Now Thingol had in Menegroth deep armouries filled with great wealth of weapons: metal wrought like fishes' mail and shining like water in the moon; swords and axes, shields and helms, wrought by Telchar himself or by his master Gamil Zirak the old, or by elven-wrights more skilful still. For some things he had received in gift that came out of Valinor and were wrought by Fëanor in his mastery, than whom no craftsman was greater in all the days of the world. The Children of Húrin, ‘The Departure of Túrin’

Dwarven smiths, including Telchar and Gamil Zirak, are mentioned again; but according to this passage, at least, Thingol also possessed Noldorin weaponry, including objects wrought by Fëanor himself!

And, of course, we know Eöl, formerly Thingol’s subject, was a weaponsmith so it’s not like none of the Sindar possessed this skill. We also do not know when it was forged, save that Thingol definitely possessed it by the time Anglachel passed to Beleg. In sum, there are myriad possibilities for the maker of Aranrúth.

Was Aranrúth ever used in combat? Yes: While we do not see Thingol fight much in the Silmarillion, he was involved in combat in the First Battle (The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Sindar’). In an unwritten Canto of Lay of Leithian, Tolkien wrote the outline of a battle between Thingol’s army and Orcs who were searching for Lúthien on the borders of Doriath. It is said that “Thingol himself slays Boldog,” the Orc captain, in their victory (The Lays of Beleriand, The Lay of Leithian, ‘The Unwritten Cantos’ 12). So Thingol did engage in combat, and it’s reasonable to assume Aranrúth was his weapon in these battles.

Unfinished Tales (‘A Description of Númenor’, footnote 2) tells us:

The King’s sword was indeed Aranrúth, the sword of Elu Thingol of Doriath in Beleriand, that had descended to Elros from Elwing his mother.

This is one of those places with frustratingly, and tantalisingly, few details and gaps in the narrative. First of all, we do not know how Aranrúth passed from Thingol to Elwing (presumably via Dior, but not confirmed). Second, we don’t know how Aranrúth was saved from both the sack of Doriath and the sack of Sirion. This is complicated by the fact that Elwing was a child at the time of the former, and Elros her son was a child at the time of the latter. Surely an adult would have been involved in the transportation and transferral of this mighty weapon, but who? This is where you’ll find some interesting possibilities explored by fans: Was Oropher perhaps involved, the Iathren father of Thranduil never written into the Silmarillion? Or Galadriel, whose whereabouts at this time are inconclusive? Did Gil-galad find it in Sirion and pass it on to Elros later? Or did Maglor bring it with him out of Sirion and pass it on to his foster Elros? Up to you! Canon does not tell us.

Finally, all we know of Aranrúth’s fate is that it did not survive the Downfall. But if Ar-Pharazôn had it on him when he went ashore in Valinor, might it have been buried with him?

Narsil

Meaning: Red and White Flame (according to LotR index). Quenya.

Maker: Telchar

Owned/wielded by: Unknown; Elendil, who wielded it in the War of the Last Alliance; shards borne by Isildur, Valandil and his line; reforged as Andúril and wielded by Aragorn in the War of the Ring.

Notable for: cutting the Ring from Sauron’s hand.

Fate: broken in the War of the Last Alliance; shards borne by Elendil’s heirs through the Third Age and eventually reforged as Andúril.

But at the last the siege was so strait that Sauron himself came forth; and he wrestled with Gil-galad and Elendil, and they both were slain, and the sword of Elendil broke under him as he fell. But Sauron also was thrown down, and with the hilt-shard of Narsil Isildur cut the Ruling Ring from the hand of Sauron and took it for his own. The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age' 'Here I set it,' he said, 'but I command you not to touch it, nor to permit any other to lay hand on it. In this elvish sheath dwells the Blade that was Broken and has been made again. Telchar first wrought it in the deeps of time. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, ‘Chapter 6: The King of the Golden Hall’

Discussion

Narsil is a fascinating sword of the “First Age” because the only reason we know it even existed that early is Aragorn’s one mention of Telchar in The Two Towers, quoted above. The problem is, Elendil is the first confirmed owner of Narsil — at the end of the Second Age! This leaves over three-and-a-half millennia of history unaccounted for. Nothing in canon tells us how Narsil got from the smithies of Nogrod to Elendil. (Until I did this research, even I was certain that Elros was confirmed to have owned Narsil; not so.)

This mention has led fans to do some imaginative mental gymnastics devising a history for the famous Blade that was Broken. One popular interpretation is that Elros received Narsil from Maedhros, and this is not without basis in canon. For one, we know that Elros was fostered by Maglor and presumably knew Maedhros also (in some versions, it is in fact Maedhros who fosters the half-elven twins). There is also a canonical link between Maedhros and Telchar, recounted in the Narn i hîn Húrin in Unfinished Tales (the story was not reproduced in the Children of Húrin): when Maedhros saves the life of Azaghâl lord of Belegost in an Orc raid on the Dwarf road, Azaghâl gives him the Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin — another work of Telchar — as guerdon. Could Azaghâl have given him Narsil at the same time? Of course, there are plenty of other ways Maedhros might have received Narsil besides, this is just one of the more direct links.

There are also countless other ways Narsil could have come to Elendil. Another equally plausible explanation would be that it was one of the weapons in Thingol’s armouries, saved, like Aranrúth, from the sack of Doriath. And we don’t even know that Narsil was ever in Númenor! Could it have been Elrond’s sword, that he gave to his cousin many-times-removed when he came to Middle-earth? There are many, many tantalising possibilities.

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#weapons #aranruth #narsil #thingol #numenor #elendil #elros #the children of hurin #the lord of the rings #anon

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gnomescarfcomics · 11 months

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Middle-earth shots of the week

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