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The reforged and renamed Narsil / Andúril pair has a parallel, too, within Tolkien's legendarium. The hero of the First Age, Túrin 's sword, is similarly renamed: Anglachel becomes Gurthang. [ 4 ] The Tolkien scholars K. S. Whetter and Andrew McDonald call these weapons almost "living personalities"; [ 2 ] Croft notes that at the end ...
[T 41] [T 32] The reforged Andúril is described as very bright, shining red and white with the light of the sun and moon. [T 32] [T 33] [T 43] The Silmarillion further states that the original Narsil already shone in such a manner, but its light was extinguished when it was broken.
Andúril/Narsil – The sword of Elendil that was used by Isildur to cut the One Ring from Sauron (Narsil) reforged several ages later by Elrond (Andúril); the reforging of the shards was foretold as a sign of the coming of the true King of Gondor. Aiglos – The spear with which the Elven king Gil-galad went to war.
In the Völsunga saga, these items are respectively Andvaranaut and Gram, and they correspond broadly to the One Ring and the sword Narsil (reforged as Andúril). [46] The naming of weapons in Middle-earth, too, is a direct reflection of Norse mythology. [2] The Völsunga saga also gives various names found in Tolkien.
In the Völsunga saga, these items are respectively Andvaranaut and Gram, and they correspond broadly to the One Ring and the sword Narsil (reforged as Andúril). [8] Tolkien dismissed critics' direct comparisons to Wagner, telling his publisher, "Both rings were round, and there the resemblance ceases."
In the Völsunga saga, these items are respectively Andvaranaut and Gram, and they correspond broadly to the One Ring and the sword Narsil (reforged as Andúril). [44] The Völsunga saga also gives various names found in Tolkien. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún discusses the saga in relation to the myth of Sigurd and Gudrún. [45]
Whitbrook and Miller both criticized the similarities between the scene where Elendil is given Narsil and the scene in Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) where Elendil's descendant Aragorn is given the same sword, reforged and renamed Andúril. Both critics felt the series' version was hollow in comparison to the film's.
Aragorn too has a sword which was broken: the ancient and magical sword Narsil, of his distant ancestor Elendil, whose son Isildur used it to defeat the Dark Lord Sauron by cutting the Ring from his hand. Like Frodo, Aragorn arrives in Rivendell, and there he too receives a magic weapon: his sword is reforged, as Andúril, "Flame of the West ...