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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 jeweled 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 "…white and gold…in a ruel-bone (ivory) sheath,..." While Glamdring is not mentioned by name, it is reasonable to assume that the same sword is described.

Glamdring was most likely taken to the Undying LandsIn the fictional writings of J. Tolkien, the Undying Lands are a realm inhabited by immortal beings. It includes the continent of Aman and the island of Tol Eressea. The treacherous Sauron deceived Ar-Pharazon, last king of Numenor, into thinking the rule by Gandalf at the end of the Third AgeThe Third Age is a fictional time period from J. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth. The Third Age began after the first downfall of Sauron, when he was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men following the downfall of Numenor. This age was charact.

Glamdring is inscribed with runes in the Elven language. In the movies released by New Line CinemaNew Line Cinema founded in 1967, is a Big Ten movie studio. It is a subsidiary of Time Warner and it operates several divisions, including: Theatrical distribution Marketing Home video Fineline Features, specializing in independent film The current co- ch and directed by Peter JacksonPeter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961), is a film writer, director and producer born in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand to Bill and Joan Jackson. He first gained attention with his "splatstick" horror comedies, and came to prominence with his movie Heavenly, the runes say "Turgon Aran Gondolin, Tortha gar a matha Glamdring, Vegil Glamdring gud daelo. Dam an Glamhoth." which translates to "Turgon, king of Gondolin, wields, has, and holds the sword Glamdring, Foe of Morgoth's realm, Hammer of the Orcs." This inscription, however, was not mentioned in any of J. R. R. Tolkien's writings. All Tolkien says in The Hobbit is that the names of the swords were given in the runes, but nothing else is clearly stated. The invented inscription for the movie sword, however, does sound plausible, since Elrond was able to identify that the sword belonged to Turgon.

One problem, though, is that the inscription is given in SindarinSindarin is an artificial language (or conlang) developed by J. In Tolkien's mythos, it was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth. It was the language of the Sindar, those Teleri which had been left behind on the Great Journey of the El, but in an essay written late in J. R. R. Tolkien's life, he explicitly states that Turgon had re-established QuenyaQuenya is one of the languages spoken by the Elves in J. Tolkien's work. It was the language that developed among those non-Telerin Elves that reached Valinor (the "High Elves") from an earlier language called Common Eldarin. Of the Three Houses of Elves, as the language of his household in Gondolin (see The Peoples of Middle-earthThe Peoples of Middle-earth is the 12th and final volume of The History of Middle-earth edited by Christopher Tolkien from the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. Some characters (including Anaire, the wife of Fingolfin) only appear here. Contents: T, p. 348). Curiously, it is mentioned in The Hobbit that Gandalf could not read the runes, but that Elrond could, suggesting they were enscribed not in normal Cirth but in some special mode which Gandalf did not know—or, as is more likely, it was at first an inconsistency on Tolkien's part, keeping in mind that The Hobbit had not originally been intended to be so closely woven into the Silmarillion legends. Although the inscription in the film version is Lord of the Rings-era Sindarin and Cirth, the Elvish languages had certainly changed since Turgon's time, so it may be that since Elrond was a survivor from the First Age, he would have been able to read the inscription, whereas Gandalf, who had lived in Aman until the middle Third Age, was unaquainted with it.

Like all High-Elven swords, Glamdring is supposed to glow with a blue or white flame when Orcs (or Balrogs) are near, like Frodo's sword Sting and Thorin Oakenshield's sword Orcrist, which were also made in Gondolin. However this was left out of the Lord of the Rings movies by New Line Cinema because they felt it would be confusing.

In addition to the licensed reproduction sword linked below, Del Tin Antiche of Italy made unlicensed interpretations of both Glamdring and Orcrist, which were sold through Museum Replicas, Ltd. back in the mid to late 1980s. These were very high quality steel, and well constructed (if quite plain).