Orcrist and Glamdring...

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Urungus

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Hello! New to these forums.
Anyone recognize these names? Think Lord of the Rings.
I seem to remember an old catalog of The Noble Collection having them. I'm talking years ago.
Would anyone know of another source?
I've seen the "Lord of the Rings" sword that currently available. Frankly it doesn't do the story of these two swords justice.

Thanks,
Rungi

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"foe-hammer" and what?

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"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.", King Lear, Act I, Scene 4.
 
Paranoid9999--

Orcrist is "Goblin-Cleaver", Glamdring is "Foe-Hammer."

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and
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About, oh.... 10 years ago now Museum Replicas carried these. They predated their "fantasy" section, and unlike a lot of what they've carried there since, they looked like really functional blades.

Glamdring had a leaf blade (the same one they've since put "lighning bolts" on, as a recall), and the pommel and ricassso had cutouts looking not unlike the old rebel insiginia from the Star Wars movies.

Orcrist had a slimmer blade, I think with a crescent pommel.

Not that this helps now.. they stopped carrying 'em years ago. Still, I reckon it's possible to buy the newer "thunder and lightning" blades (if they're still being carried, not seen a catalog in a couple years), strip off the existing hilts, and get a metalsmith to reproduce the older one.

-K
 
Kaylee: Yes! The description of Glamdring most certainly matched that of what I saw.
Orcrist wasn't the most hansome of swords but it doesn't have to look pretty to be effective!
Thanks for the info! Checking out the site now.

As for you CD Fleischer... :P

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hrmm.. don't see it on their site.. maybe it's discontinued.

I'll take a look this evening, see if I can find a picture out of an old catalog.

-K
 
I wouldn't bother buying Ocrist and Glamdring from MRL these days. If you could find the old ones that they carried some place you would be doing all right since the old blades were made by Del tin. Today the blades are made by Windlass which typically means shoddy workmanship and an "India" stamped on the blade. Honestly I never liked the looks of them even when they were made by Del Tin. They looked kind of clunky to me.
 
Well personally, being an avid Tolkien fan, I believe that if we were to buy a replica i think it should be custom. Especially Glamdring, Orcrist, and Anduril. I would love to see a custom maker make those!!!!!!
Trevor
 
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