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Felix Thieme wrote: |
I'd say taper the fuller, but that's just my opinion. Even better, have the end of the fuller follow the same shape as the blade itself. |
Shawn Duncanson wrote: |
I like the pommel, grip, and fittings. Though the blade just reminds me too much of sting, though I like the uniform fuller! Narsil, later to be anduril, was made by the dwarves initially, and the leaf blade-ish designs seem to be attributed to elves by the movies anyway. Do you have a name for it? The same dwarf smith that made Narsil made a dagger called Angrist mentioned in the essay called Of Dwarves and Men. Though I have not read the essay I have seen references to it. Here is one such reference.
Going further with the Dwarven smiths of both Belegost and Nogrod, it was written in the Silmarillion that they equipped the Sindarin Elves of Thingol's realm: "...Thingol's armouries were stored with axes and with spears and swords, and tall helms, and long coats of bright mail; for the hauberks of the Dwarves were so fashioned that they rusted not but shone ever as if they were new-burnished." In Unfinished Tales it is also written: "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 skillful still. For some things he received in gift that came out of Valinor and were wrought by Feanor in his mastery, than whom no craftsman was greater in all the days of the world." This establishes a picture of Elven or Dwarven warriors of the first age, clad in mail hauberks and high conical helms, bearing their deadly arms with shield, or two-handed. The smith Telchar of Nogrod is of particular note. Among his works were the Dragon Helm of Dor Lomin, the knife Angrist, and the Sword Narsil (which was later reforged by the Elves of Imladris into Anduril). In the essay Of Dwarves and Men, Tolkien notes that the Dwarves of the Elder Days and Second Age also equipped the Fathers of Men with gear of war (as with Narsil noted above). found at http://www.thelonelymountainforge.com/middle_earth.htm |