cycas:mandhos:there was a sword that in theory could have been given by Maedhros and I don’t r
cycas:mandhos:there was a sword that in theory could have been given by Maedhros and I don’t remember if it was in some version of the silmarillion or I read it elsewhere.I definitely have to reread the silmarillion. The reasoning is that Elendil’s sword Narsil (the one he broke fighting Sauron and re-forged into Aragorn’s sword Anduril) was made by Telchar, one of the great first-age smiths of Nogrod. Aragorn says so in LOTR: ‘Telchar first wrought it in the depths of time’. There are a bunch of ways that a sword from Nogrod could have made their way to Numenor, of course, but one possible route is that it came to Elros via the House of Feanor, the elves who lived closest to Nogrod and were allies of the dwarves of Belegost. Elros’s official sword was Aranrúth, Thingol’s own sword, but that remained the property of the kings and was lost in the fall of Numenor. Narsil was apparently not considered an important state heirloom, like Aranrúth, since it passed to a junior line of the royal house as their personal possession. If the sword was personally significant but officially not entirely politically respectable, that might be one reason it survived, rather than being locked away in a flooded treasury. Anyway, I don’t think any of that is in the Silmarillion, it’s more of a fan theory - I think I may have got it from @hhimring. Lovely art, I do like Elros’s thoughtful expression. -- source link
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