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  2. List of weapons and armour in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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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] It was later held by the Kings of Numenor, until lost in the downfall ...

  3. Naming of weapons in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.

  5. Category:Middle-earth weapons - Wikipedia

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    This category lists weapons from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium Wikimedia Commons has media related to Weapons of Middle-earth . Pages in category "Middle-earth weapons"

  6. Nazgûl - Wikipedia

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    The Dark Lord Sauron gave nine Rings of Power to powerful mortal men, including three lords of the once-powerful island realm of Númenor, along with kings of countries in Middle-earth. [T 2] [T 3] The rings enslaved their bearers to the power of Sauron's One Ring, into which he had put much of his own power. The corrupting effect of the Rings ...

  7. Buphonia - Wikipedia

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    The axe, therefore, as being polluted by murder, was immediately afterward carried before the court of the Prytaneum, which tried the inanimate object for murder, and, after the water-bearers who lustrated the axe, the sharpeners who sharpened it, the axe-bearer who carried it, each denied in turn responsibility for the deed, the guilty axe or ...

  8. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Marjorie Burns's analysis of the living deaths and fiery ends of evil characters in Middle-earth [21] Evil character Actions Death Sauron: Creates the One Ring to dominate Middle-earth; uses it to build Mordor and the Dark Tower; becomes the "Necromancer", communing with the dead "Virtually indestructible": undone by fire, his shadow blown away ...

  9. Doloire - Wikipedia

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    Doloire "épaule de mouton" (adze "shoulder of mutton"). The doloire or wagoner's axe was a tool and weapon used during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.The axe had a wooden shaft measuring approximately 1.5 metres (5 feet) in length and a head that was pointed at the top and rounded at the bottom, resembling either a teardrop or an isosceles triangle.