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The Axe of Tuor, called Dramborleg (Gnomish: Thudder-Sharp) [30] in The Book of Lost Tales, is the great axe belonging to Tuor, son of Huor in Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth [1] that left wounds like "both a heavy dint as of a club and cleft as a sword". [30]
In Medieval epics, heroes gave names to their weapons. The name, lineage, and power of the weapon reflected on the hero. Among the major tales are those of Sigurd the Volsung and his sword Gram that he used to kill the dragon Fafnir; [a] [1] Beowulf and the swords Hrunting and Nægling; [2] King Arthur's Excalibur, the "Sword in the Stone"; [2] Roland's Durendal; Waldere's Mimming; [2] and the ...
In 2019 a race of "Stout-Axe Dwarves" was added with the Minas Morgul expansion, representing a dwarven clan from the far east of Middle-Earth with an appearance distinct from that of Longbeard dwarves and allowing players to choose the gender of those dwarven characters, [11] unlike the original Dwarven race, which only allows male characters.
It's interesting to note that the original editor for Lord of the Rings actually "corrected" Tolkien's spelling of "dwarves" to "dwarfs." Tolkien stated that the true plural of dwarf is dwarrows ...
Within Skarháld, tensions are brewing between different dwarven clans. Durin's Longbeards are vastly outnumbered by the Zhélruka led by Prince Ingor, with a number of Stout-Axe dwarves recently freed from Mordor added to the mix. His position threatened by the Zhélruka, Durin asks his father King Thorin III Stonehelm for reinforcements ...
One such passage of lore speaks of an ancient Dwarf-smith who endeavored to create an axe of solid mithril. An entire forge was created specifically for it, The Heart of Fire is unearthed but the axe, Zigilburk, is nowhere to be found. Heartened by the recovery of one of their greatest forges, Brogur pushes onward into Moria.
[T 3] Gimli, a dwarf of Erebor and the son of Glóin, one of Thorin's twelve companions, is chosen to represent his people in the Fellowship of the Ring; he helps Aragorn regain the throne of Gondor. [T 10] In the War of the Ring, an emissary from Sauron, the lord of Mordor, twice comes to Erebor and speaks to Dáin.
Although this is often used as a term of convenience for parrying daggers in general, it also refers more specifically to the earlier and simpler form of the weapon. It had stout quillons (straight or curved) for effective parrying as well as an additional guard in the form of a ring or shell on one side of the quillons where they crossed the grip.