"Stunt" swords, used in combat scenes, were made with soft aluminium blades and urethane grips. In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, "hero" weapons, used for "beauty" shots such as close-ups, were made from high-quality materials: sword blades from heat-treated spring steel sword hilts from cast bronze or forged and ground steel. Tolkien devised terms for specific types of weapons, such as lango (broad sword), eket, ecet (short sword), and lhang (cutlass, sword). pilindi (Hooker notes the similarity of the Latin pīlum, with cognates in the Old High German, Modern German, Old English, late Old Norse, and the Dutch. ![]() Bow: Noldorin Sindarin: peng also poetically cû ("arch"), Quenya: quinga. ![]() ![]()
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