#Lord of the rings elf swords movie

Occasionally you get a light description of how it's decorated such as Glamdring and Orcrist having beautiful scabbards and jeweled hilts. Generally weapons and armor both in the books tend to be on the more vague side though, without much description on functionality of the weapons. I also don't recall there being any instances of swords being used two-handed in any of the books, and yes, Egalmoth is the only elf to be described as using a curved blade. (In other words, it ought to look like something someone might actually use, not a fantasy weapon or anything overly ornate or gaudy).

Some modest bling would be in character as long as it doesn't look like it'd make the sword any less functional. If you want something authentic-looking we're talking something like a one-handed broadsword or arming sword with a sensible-looking hilt, no impractical fantasy twiddly bits if you know what I mean, no extraneous nonsense on the blade like bits that stick out either. The book does not feature two-handed swords. In the book, though, Aragorn was given a shield to use by the Rohirrim so that's definitely not what Tolkien had in mind.

#Lord of the rings elf swords movie

As far as the book goes the swords are one-handed the movie changed that and there Glamdring, Aragorn's 'Ranger' sword and Boromir's sword were all hand-and-a-half swords, with the Sword of Kings was a two-hander. The curved Elvish swords featured in the movie were invented. The Freeps should almost always have straight swords (there's like one mention of an Elf using a 'crooked' sword in the Sil, if I remember rightly), and the Orcs and Haradrim use scimitars. Maybe I am wrong in that thought but I'll still choose the sword I have over a curved sword. That's an Elven sword if the ever was one. Is it that for RP purposes players just want something cool looking regardless of lore and or are they swayed by the movies,still knowing the swords should in the lore be straight like European Long and Short swords?Д«tw you might not find it at the location from the link. I always had the notion that Elven blades were straight whether being one or two handed swords. Watch the scene where Gandalf and Elrond discuss the blade and you'll see what I mean. I actually looked like it did if I didn't know the blade edge was dull or flat. The blade Orcrist used in the movies would slice off a users fingers if they used the sheath shown. Even slightly resembling scimitar type blade imo isn't an Elven sword. What I don't think is the consummate Elvin sword is a sword with a curved blade like the ones in the movies. I imagine different Elves had different styles and in different times/ages also had different or variated versions of swords. I watched in game discussions about this and those too had the same notion. Seems like players think an Elven sword looks like the Peter Jackson swords used in the movies.