Anduril/Narsil Scabbard  SBU-AND-NARS-SCBD   $134  Expedited Shipping Available! E-mail service@strongblade.com or call 866-7SWORDS Ships in 5-10 days    Anduril, the sword that was forged from the shards of Narsil, was the symbol of hope to the inhabitants of Middle Earth. Forged in 3018, the sword was living testiment to the fact that the Dark Lord Sauron, lieutenant of Morgoth and ravager of the east, could be defeated. You\'ll recall from your history texts that Narsil was the blade carried by King Elendil, the First High King of the exiled Numenoreans. Narsil was forged by Telchar, the greatest dwarven smith in the long, long history of Middle Earth. Elendil carried it against Sauron in the War of the Last Alliance. In the final battle of that War, Elendil was slain by Sauron, but his son, Isildur, picked up the sword and confronted the Dark Lord. Sauron, shattered the blade and as he reached toward Isildur to finish him, Isildur famously swung the broken hilt-shard and hacked the One Ring (and a stray finger) from Sauron\'s hand, thus snatching victory from defeat and destroying The Dark Lord Sauron (for a while, anyway. Dark Lords have a way of always popping up again, much like In-laws and indigestion). Anduril was reforged by elves from the shards of Narsil. The elves etched runes on its blade as Tolkien writes: The sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven star set between the crescent Moon and the rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes... The good folks at www.elvish.org translated these runes from Tolkien\'s Elvish description (Quenya Elvish to be precise) to read as follows: I am Andúril who once was Narsil, sword of Elendil. The slaves of Mordor shall flee from me. And the last bit of poetry that we\'d like to share with you is perhaps the most often quoted (and misquoted) line from The Lord of the Rings: All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.