#Anduril

[abyssal-ilk]

i don't know the exact timeline for when ghilan'nain physically changed into what we see her as in datv, but im really attached to the idea that she didn't look like that before the veil was made. like she looked just like we saw her in solas' memory, untainted and with no extra limbs. her new form is the direct consequence of her fusing her body with anduril's blighted corpse after anduril's archdemon was slain and she died in the fade. she does not need to mourn anduril. anduril has become part of her greater whole. she would not be parted from her, even in death.

[mithrandirl]

Then an old wife, Ioreth, the eldest of the women who served in that house, looking on the fair face of Faramir, wept, for all the people loved him. And she said: ‘Alas! if he should die. Would that there were kings in Gondor, as there were once upon a time, they say! For it is said in old lore: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer. And so the rightful king could ever be known.’

[sillylotrpolls]

Today's poll inspired by this post by @taleasoldastime-andspace, who was watching knife-making competition show Forged in Fire and asked the obvious lotr-related question, and @fistfuloflightning.

In the book, Narsil is broken into two shards (or possibly, only two large shards were recovered). In the movie, Narsil is shown in about five or six pieces. You can headcanon however many shards you like for your answer.

From Tolkien Gateway:

Elendil carried Narsil in the Battle of Dagorlad where it shone with the light of the Sun and Moon, and then in the Siege of Barad-dûr; but Sauron killed him and the sword broke into two pieces under him as he fell, and its light was extinguished. Elendil's son Isildur took up the sword and used its shard to cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron. Isildur took the shards home with him. Shortly before Isildur was killed in the second year of the Third Age in the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, the shards were rescued by Ohtar, esquire of Isildur. He took them to Rivendell, where Isildur's youngest son Valandil was fostered, but Elrond foretold that it wouldn't be reforged until the One Ring was found again and Sauron returned.

From The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Part 2: Chapter 3: The Ring Goes South:

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and the rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, and its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.

[whiteladyofithilien]

Bilbo Baggins is really just out here tripping over ancient artifacts like banana peels. First we get the troll hoard. Then the one ring. Then the bloody arkenstone.

And here's the thing about the troll hoard... Without it Gandalf loses the battle in Moria. The fallen Maiar he fights is greater in power than him. His staff is destroyed by the Balrog. Any ordinary sword in Middle Earth would have been destroyed even more quickly. Anduril probably would have been destroyed. I mean bear in mind Narsil seems to have broken in the fight with Sauron (and correct me if I'm wrong but it broke kinda just because it fought Sauron). So Gandalf is in hand to hand combat with a Saruman power level Maiar from the sound of things. He needs a sword that's made to smite Balrogs. And what did he stumble upon on his adventures with Bilbo? Oh yeah a sword forged in Gondolin where fighting Balrogs was very front of mind.

I'm just saying Bilbo's ripple effect is insane. Very much like his relative Pippin. If you look at every event they set in motion it's quite mind blowing.

[diesaur]

dieno + anduril

[gnomescarfcomics]

Middle-earth shots of the week

[my-deer-legolas]

Legolas: How are we going to defeat all those orcs?

Aragorn: With friendship and this sword I found.

[art-of-firefly]

My Chara-design for Aragorn -

I won't draw all of Elros line, but since he was adopted by Elrond and married Arwen it looped back to being included in the House of Finwë family tree.

[knightofthenewrepublic]

[oldschoolfrp]

Selections from my Russ Nicholson tag

[mithrandirl]

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and the rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Andúril by Ralph Damiani

[diesaur]

[holycrapitsbags]

I'm sure this is not a new idea and surely someone has put this out there or even made art of this...

But, LOTR fans; how cool would it be Andúril, Aragorn's sword made of the shards of Narsil, had been remade in the style of Kintsugi ( the Japanese technique for fixing a precious thing that was broken by and filling the seams with gold or silver to make it more beautiful than before )???

And and and instead of gold or silver they use Mithril to fill in the lines of the broken shard so that the blade has this glittering, white, forking lines through out it that make it look as though it's being held together by a branch of The White Tree of Gondor? Like how sick would that have been?

[drempen]

It's so funny having this aesthetic post pop up in my suggested

Like that's my good pal Andúril the flame of the west‼️