Glamdring

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Glamdring was forged for the Elf Turgon in the First Age. For several thousand years it went missing, until Gandalf (and company) found it (along with Sting and Orcrist) in the Trolls' cave in The Hobbit and claimed it for himself. He continued to use Glamdring through the events of The Lord of the Rings.

Glamdring is translated as Foe-hammer, and the goblins in The Hobbit call it "Beater".

Glamdring, along with Orcrist, its mate, are described in The Hobbit as having "...beautiful scabbards and jewelled hilts", and Glamdring is 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 "