[Knight Templar]

How much?

[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...

[Clave]

£215 for the official one: http://www.movierealms.com/acatalog/LOTRGlamdring.html

I'm tempted by a lot of stuff on that site....

[aldo_14]

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"

[pyro-manic]

Heheheheh! I can just imagine Ian McKellan delivering that.

[Grey Wolf]

And if anyone has dreams of being Kenshin: http://www.swblades.com/reblka.html
Just found that by accident in an unrelated search.

[TrashMan]

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....

[aldo_14]

Drunken poker game.

[pyro-manic]

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.

[Clave]

Green Destiny is a cool sword....

[diamondgeezer]

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?

[karajorma]

I think he means Thorin

[TrashMan]

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

[Grug]

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....

[TrashMan]

"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

****
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....

[Knight Templar]

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.

[Dark_4ce]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Continuing my recent campaign of spam - bring it on, Dark 4ce!

Oooh! You now wield a sword of LOTR as well. I bow to thee!

"And let this be the hour we draw swords together!"

*SHHHHHHING!*

[Grug]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


Somehow, I doubt that.

Peter Jackson chuckles about it in the appendix discs from the extended edition.