Sting

Sting was an Elven short-sword made in Gondolin during the First Age, possibly first owned by Gondolindrim. Bilbo Baggins discovered Sting in the year TA 2941 in a Troll-hoard, and used it during the Quest of Erebor. He later passed it to his heir Frodo Baggins.
==Description ==
Though just a dagger by standard of the Elves, Sting made a perfect short-sword for a Hobbit, although it was still rather small. Bilbo initially chose to wear it "inside his breeches"The Hobbit, Chapter V: "Riddles in the Dark" and was still able to travel and even run without any apparent inconvenience.
Sting was like Glamdring and Orcrist 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."The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter IV: "A Journey in the Dark" But only Sting was definitively described as glowing blue, or glittering with blue flame at its edges. However, when the fellowship entered Moria, it is said that "no gleam came from the blades of Sting, or Glamdring, and that was some comfort. For being the work of Elven smiths in elder days, these swords shone with a cold light if any orc were near at hand."
As fitting of a blade of Gondolin, Sting could easily cut the webs of Ungoliant's offspring such as Shelob and the spiders of Mirkwood.
==History ==
An ancient Elvish blade made by weapon-smiths in Gondolin, Sting may have been lost during the Fall of Gondolin, the same battle in which Turgon fell and Glamdring was taken.
By the late Third Age, it came into the possession of three trolls dwelling in eastern Eriador; and they put in their lair, along with Glamdring and Orcrist, which Gandalf, Bilbo, and Thorin and Company later found. When rescuing Thorin and Company from the giant spiders of Mirkwood, Bilbo was inspired to give the sword its name after cutting himself free from a cocoon and slaying the spider guarding him.The Hobbit, Chapter VIII: "Flies and Spiders"
Just before his nephew embarked on his quest to Mordor from Rivendell, Bilbo gave Sting to Frodo. Sam then took the weapon from his (seemingly dead) master and used it to good effect against Shelob on the borders of Mordor.
Gollum, who disliked anything made by the Elves, was afraid of Sting. This fear aided Bilbo when he confronted Gollum in the cave at the base of the Misty Mountains in The Hobbit. This also helped Frodo and Sam subdue Gollum decades later, when they encountered him in the Emyn Muil. Orcs also had an instinctive fear of these weapons and hated any who carried them.
Following Frodo's departure to the Undying Lands it is unknown whether he took Sting with him or left it to Sam, as he did with the Red Book, in which case it would have landed in the possession of the Fairbairns or Gardners.
==In adaptations ==
===Peter Jackson's films===
In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Gandalf uncovers the blade on the floor of the cave as he was about to leave and gives it to Bilbo, who is waiting outside. Sting is depicted as vaguely leaf-shaped, with a spiral design and gently curving edges (much like a Greek xiphos), such as Tolkien described in his book. In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, engraved on the blade are Sindarin letters that read phonetically, Maegnas aen estar nin dagnir in yngyl im. Translated, they read, Sting is my name; I am the spider's bane.The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare, "Hobbits", pg. 43 According to the appendix of The Silmarillion, the element maeg in Sindarin means 'sharp' or 'piercing', and etymologies in The Lost Road and Other Writings give the meaning of the element nass as 'point', so "Maegnas" is literally translated as "sharp-point". 
In the books there is no mention that Bilbo had the blade inscribed, and the inscription is not present in The Hobbit films, but after Bilbo named the blade Sting he could have had it inscribed by the elves during the story of The Hobbit or after, or the elves could have inscribed it for him after he returned to live in Rivendell. This seems likely since the engraving is in Sindarin and the elves obviously would have had the best experience in reshaping a blade such as Sting.
Despite both Glamdring and Orcrist being elvish blades of similar make, Sting is the only blade shown to glow blue in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films. 
==Gallery ==
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Stank
Albanian 	Djeg
Amharic 	ነደፈ
Arabic 	ستينغ
Armenian 	մազմզուկ
Azerbaijani 	Dişlək
Belarusian Cyrillic 	Джала
Bengali 	হুল
Bosnian 	Ubod
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Стинг
Cambodian 	ទ្រនិច
Catalan 	Picada
Cebuano 	Mopaak
Chichewa 	Mbola
Chinese (Hong Kong) 	刺針
Chinese (Mandarin) 	刺叮
Croatian 	Žalac
Czech 	Žihadlo
Danish 	Stik
Dutch 	Prik
Esperanto 	Pikilon
Estonian 	Nõelamine
Filipino 	Sigid
Finnish 	Piikki
French 	Dard
Frisian 	Stekke
German 	Stich
Georgian 	ნესტარი
Greek 	Κεντρί (Kentri)
Gujarati 	સ્ટિંગ
Haitian Creole 	Pike
Hebrew 	עוקץ
Hindi 	डंक
Hmong 	Plev
Hungarian 	Fullánk
Icelandic 	Stunga
Indonesian 	Menyengat
Italian 	Pungolo
Japanese 	つらぬき丸
Kannada 	ಕುಟುಕು
Kazakh 	Стинг (Cyrillic) Stïng (Latin)
Korean 	스팅
Kurdish 	Pêvedan (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	чагып алуу
Latin 	Stimulus
Latvian 	Dzēlums
Lithuanian 	Geluonis
Macedonian Cyrillic 	Стинг
Malaysian 	Sengat
Malayalam 	കുത്ത്
Maori 	Wero
Mongolian Cyrillic 	хатгах
Nepalese 	डंक
Norwegian 	Brodd
Pashto 	لیشه
Persian 	نیش
Portuguese 	Ferroada (Brazil) Ferrão (Portugal)
Polish 	Żądło
Punjabi 	ਸਟਿੰਗ
Romanian 	Țeapa (Înțepătura)
Romansh 	Piztgar
Russian 	Жало
Samoan 	Tui
Sanskrit 	ष्तिङ्
Serbian 	убод (Cyrillic) Ubod (Latin)
Sesotho 	Motsu
Sinhalese 	විෂ දළය
Shona 	Ruma
Slovenian 	Želo
Somalian 	Micida
Slovak 	Bodnutie
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Dardo
Sundanese 	Nyeureud
Swahili 	Nyuki
Tajik Cyrillic 	газидан
Tamil 	ஸ்டிங்
Telugu 	స్టింగ్
Thai 	ดาบสติง
Turkish 	Acı
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Стинг
Urdu 	ڈنک
Uzbek 	Стинг (Cyrillic) Caqmoq (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Mũi Đốt
Welsh 	Golyn
Xhosa 	Suzela
Yiddish 	שטעכן
Yoruba 	Ta
==References==
==External links ==
*Replica from BladeCenter.com
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