Glamdring

Glamdring (also called the Foe-hammer and the Beater) was a hand-and-a-half sword, forged for Turgon, the Elven King of Gondolin during the First Age, and much later owned by the wizard Gandalf.
==History==
In the First Age, Turgon likely wielded it in the Nírnaeth Arnoediad and later, in the Fall of Gondolin. For over 6,000 years Glamdring went missing, being salvaged and surviving the War of Wrath, until Gandalf found it in a Troll cave in Eriador in TA 2941 (alongside Orcrist and what was later called 'Sting') and claimed it for himself. With Glamdring Gandalf slew the Great Goblin shortly thereafter in Goblin-town, before he and Thorin II Oakenshield routed his underlings. Gandalf continued to use Glamdring through the events of the War of the Ring.
It was called "Beater" by the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
==Appearance==
Glamdring, along with Orcrist its mate, are described in The Hobbit as having "...beautiful scabbards and jewelled hilts", and Glamdring was referred to by Elrond as "Foe-hammer that the King of Gondolin once wore". In Unfinished Tales, one of the footnotes to the story "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin" mentions that the sword of Turgon was "...white and gold...in a ruel-bone (ivory) sheath,..." While Glamdring is not mentioned by name, it is reasonable to assume that the same sword is described.
In common with other High-elven swords, Glamdring was like Orcrist and Sting in that "being the work of Elvish smiths in the Elder Days these swords shone with a cold light, if any Orcs were near at hand," and so it warned its bearers of nearby evil. Glamdring was "bright as blue flame for delight in the killing of the" Great Goblin, but that could have referred to its brightness in that situation; everywhere else in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings, Glamdring's colour when glowing is always described as white.
==Etymology==
The name Glamdring is Quenya for "Foe-hammer", from the Ñoldorin word dring ("beat, strike").
Category:Swords
Category:Middle Earth Weapons