Sting
Quick Facts
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| Dates: | Made between I 126 and I 5101 | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | Given this name by Bilbo Baggins, during a fight with the gigantic spiders of Mirkwood | ||||||||||||||
The ‘short sword’ of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
A knife manufactured in Gondolin in the First Age, carried away as spoil by the creatures of Morgoth who destroyed that city. It was rediscovered millennia later in a troll-hoard by Bilbo Baggins, who named it Sting after using it to rescue the companions of Thorin Oakenshield from the giant spiders of Mirkwood.
Footnotes
| 1 | These are the dates of the founding and destruction of Gondolin. Since we know that Sting was made in that city, it must have been forged between these two dates. |
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