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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on December 11, 2004, 03:08:47 pm
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Continuing my recent campaign of spam - bring it on, Dark 4ce! :D
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Whose sword is Glamdring? Looks very cool....sharp and shiny. :D
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Gandalf's.
My wife got me one of those replicas for me birthday 2 years ago.
very cool :)
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That *looks* like a very cool sword, got better pics?
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Nice looking but practically useless.....good for wrist training tho.
Nice.
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Mine's bigger than that.
:p
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Could you not actually sharpen that and make it into a real weapon?
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i was annoyed in the movie when they didn't have glamdring glow like it should have
whenever sting glowed blue glamdring should have been glowing white
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Now you just need the corresponding fork.
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Nice coat.
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Pic:
(http://www.movierealms.com/acatalog/Glamdring01.jpg)
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Glamdring was the sword of the elven king of Gondolin, Turgon. How it made it to Gandalf's hands I have no idea...
In the movie, it did glow twice (when fighting balrog on the bridge, and when falling down)
I'm more pissed about Narsil (Anduril). The book sez it glowed with the light of the Sun and the Moon (yellowish during the day, and bluish over the night I wager.... don't know for a fact)
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Probably removed so that people don't get confused as to why there are so many different glowing swords - Frodos is the only one that gets explained.
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Originally posted by TrashMan
Glamdring was the sword of the elven king of Gondolin, Turgon. How it made it to Gandalf's hands I have no idea...
Haven't you read the Hobbit? If you want to be a fanboi, at least know some basic facts about your subject
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Probably removed so that people don't get confused as to why there are so many different glowing swords - Frodos is the only one that gets explained.
:nod:
They would have to explain all these nuances to people who hadn't read the book, after all - such as myself.
Originally posted by TrashMan
In the movie, it did glow twice (when fighting balrog on the bridge, and when falling down)
I think that was the staff that was glowing, not the sword... but I can't find a screencap and my brother has the video; someone check this?
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bilbo found the glamdring in orc caves or something?
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Bilbo, Gandalf and the Dwarves found Glamdring and Sting along with Orcrist and a bunch of other treasure that the three trolls had taken from anyone unfortunate enough to cross their paths.
How on Earth three such weapon happened to be taken by the trolls is anyones guess.
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They probably just found them somewhere. I suspect an elf-lord (the only people likely to have a high-elf sword) would kick the **** out of a troll.
UT: No. They're made of crappy soft stainless steel. You could sharpen it, and it'd cut something, but it'd go blunt/get notched/bend very quickly, so it wouldn't be useful for very long..... You need a carbon steel blade for a proper edge.
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Yup, you could easily snap the blade on this thing. But then, it's decorative and not for killing... in theory...
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Just use it for opening very large letters.
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How much?
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40 quid off of Ebay. It's not the official United Cutlery replica, see, it's the blacksmith equivilant of a sweat-shop knock-off... If I ever find the room to swing it about the end will probly fall off...
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£215 for the official one: http://www.movierealms.com/acatalog/LOTRGlamdring.html
I'm tempted by a lot of stuff on that site....
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
40 quid off of Ebay. It's not the official United Cutlery replica, see, it's the blacksmith equivilant of a sweat-shop knock-off... If I ever find the room to swing it about the end will probly fall off...
"you shall not pass!"
*crack* *ding*
"oh, ****. Go on then"
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Heheheheh! I can just imagine Ian McKellan delivering that. :lol:
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And if anyone has dreams of being Kenshin: http://www.swblades.com/reblka.html
Just found that by accident in an unrelated search.
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Haven't you read the Hobbit? If you want to be a fanboi, at least know some basic facts about your subject
I read everything there is to read. I know Bilbo and Gandalf and Turin (or was it?) found those swords, but the quation is - how did the swords get to where they found them?
Gondolin was completely destroyed as was half the continent on which it was located....
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Drunken poker game.
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Grey wolf: Reverse-bladed katana? That's..... odd, to say the least.
This is more my thing: http://www.swblades.com/chbr.html
or this: http://www.swblades.com/grdecrti.html - given that I'm a Chinese martial artist. Those, or a late-pattern cavalry sabre - given that I'm a sabre fencer. ;)
But nice nonetheless. I use a suburi (a heavy bokken) for wrist strength exercises, and it's pretty cool.
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Green Destiny is a cool sword....:nod:
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Originally posted by TrashMan
I read everything there is to read. I know Bilbo and Gandalf and Turin (or was it?) found those swords, but the quation is - how did the swords get to where they found them?
Gondolin was completely destroyed as was half the continent on which it was located....
Just tell me one thing - you're not implying Turin was with Gandalf and Bilbo when the swords were found... are you?
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I think he means Thorin :D
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Yes I did...been na while since I read hobbit...
I know who Turin Turanbar was...a damn typo..
Anyway, you know what Anduril actually means?
Andu = from the west
ril = glittering, shining, brilliance
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Heheh.
The reason that Glamdring wasn't glowing blue in the Fellowship movie was for the simple reason that they ran out of money for special effects.
They changed the fact that Aragorn gets Anduril when leaving Rivendell to recieving it by Elrond in the Return of the King before going off to the path of the dead. Thus there was no glowing blue blades at Helm's Deep... :(.
Plus Peter Jackson doesn't like to think of magic aka D&D style, and likes to make things seem for the most part magic is exagerated in stories later on. So his interpretation of Aragorn's sword glowing and flashing might be in the poetic sense of him fighting with it gracefully rather than the literal sense.
Did you Know: The troll that Aragorn fights in the Battle of the Black gate was originally filmed as the Sauron aka as in the Prologue. But then with changes to the script they digitically replaced Sauron with the big Troll....
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"Anduril rose and fell in white flames" - I don't see a blue glow in this sentance
Allso, there are ways to make a sword appear magical and menacing without making it glow like a lightsaber
1. Make it reflect light far better
2. Make it emmit a eerie, unearthly sound sometimes
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Allso, Gil-Galad and Ellendil kicked Sauron's arse in the first battle.
Gil-Galad died form Saurins burning hand, and Ellendil from his mace, but they brought him down..
Isildur cut the ring from Sauron while Sauron was laying knocked out on the ground....
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Originally posted by Grug
The reason that Glamdring wasn't glowing blue in the Fellowship movie was for the simple reason that they ran out of money for special effects.
Somehow, I doubt that.
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Continuing my recent campaign of spam - bring it on, Dark 4ce! :D
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Oooh! :yes: You now wield a sword of LOTR as well. I bow to thee!
"And let this be the hour we draw swords together!"
*SHHHHHHING!* ;7
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Somehow, I doubt that.
Peter Jackson chuckles about it in the appendix discs from the extended edition.