As befitting such an epic, the heroes of Middle-Earth carry swords with legacies as epic as the battles in the films themselves. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Aragorn gives these daggers to the ...

Different races of humanoids tended to prefer particular weapons. The dwarves preferred axes, for example, while the elves preferred swords and bows. With hundreds of characters and thousands of years ...

Kamiyama and screenwriters Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou frame The War of the Rohirrim as a historical tale told by The Lord of the Rings' Éowyn (Miranda Otto, returning in voiceover). Her ...