Narsil and Andúril: The Sword That Cut the Ring | Tolkien Deep Dive
What is Narsil? How did Andúril, Flame of the West, come to be reforged from the shards of the sword that cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand? In this Tolkien deep dive, we trace the three-age biography of the most storied blade in Middle-earth—forged by the dwarf Telchar of Nogrod in the First Age, shattered beneath Elendil at the fall of Barad-dûr, and carried by Isildur as the hilt-shard that ended the Dark Lord's war.From the Disaster of the Gladden Fields to Rivendell, the broken pieces waited three thousand years. Aragorn bore them for sixty-seven years before elven smiths made the…
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