Swords

Swords, one of the most common weapons in Middle-earth, makes a good stabbing weapon as well as a slashing weapon. Among the Elves, the Ñoldor were famed for their swords. The Dwarves used swords as well. In The Hobbit, Dáin's troops bear short swords and shields as well as mattocks. Telchar the Dwarf forged Narsil, the sword of Elendil, and later Aragorn II Elessar (as Andúril). As described in Unfinished Tales, the Númenóreans used a short sword called an eket. It was a stabbing weapon. Isildur threw all his weapons and armor away except his eket when escaping from an Orc-ambush at the Disaster of the Gladden Fields. Common Orcs used curved swords (the word Tolkien uses is scimitars) while Saruman's Uruk-hai used short broad-bladed ones.