A tiny belt weapon with a storied history. Thank you.

This is very well done

@lordofthethings1

28 күн бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Your spoken word speed is just fine.

@lordofthethings1

7 күн бұрын

Thanks! I know some might think it's a little slow, but I assume a little slow is better than a little fast, so people aren't missing anything important.

This is great bud and your diction is excellent. The spoken word speed is maybe 33% too slow. I like the deliberate + precise words, but you could be a little faster and improve the acceptance of the information

When Tolkien wrote "The Hobbit", he probably didn't have a clear idea of the history behind Sting. As it is now, Sting's presence in eastern Eriador late in the 3rd age is problematic. Elrond says that Sting and the other swords must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder-but that others may have "robbed the robbers"- this had to be the case, since the dragon hoards would have been drowned at the end of the 1st age, and it's questionable whether orcs would have even been able to endure having such weapons around. Men must have had the swords for much of time between the fall of Gondolin and Bilbo's adventure.

@TheNatural-hbs

8 күн бұрын

But the swords were found in a Trolls Cave, not an Orc Cave.

@motherlesschild102

8 күн бұрын

@@TheNatural-hbs The trolls had robbed he swords from men, not orcs.So.. Elves, orcs (or maybe dragons?) men, trolls, Bilbo, Thorin, Gandalf.

Great story. Subscribed 🗡️

Was sting destroyed when mount doom erupted?

@lordofthethings1

29 күн бұрын

No, Frodo gave it to Sam before departing to the undying lands.

I thought it was more of a letter opener? Shouldn’t it have been described as “Letter’s Bane?”

@TheNatural-hbs

8 күн бұрын

Glows every time it is a letter with a Bill.

I love the designs of the prop swords from the films, but, apart from the fact that they were I engraved with runes, there is very little in the way of description from Tolkien. I suspect, knowing his areas of historical interest, that sting was a Kurt sax, the shorter version ( very popular at one time ) of the long sax. Which is basically a single edged sword that was popular for centuries, throughout the Norse kingdoms.

❤

Wasn't Sting in the books uninscribed? Elrond could read the runes and identify the swords Thorin and Gandalf carried, but not the weapon Bilbo would call Sting. 🤔

@lordofthethings1

21 күн бұрын

Yes and no, at the time that the swords were read by Elrond, Sting had not been inscribed. Sting wasn't inscribed until after the encounter with the spiders in Mirkwood. Which happened after they met with Elrond.

It's more of a letter-opener, really...

@normthompson923

16 күн бұрын

@@UncleFester84 short sword or long dagger.Elves put effort into their production in the days of Gondolin from wence came Orchrist and Glamdring,(the kings sword and later Gandalfs).

I actually have one!

@lordofthethings1

22 күн бұрын

My jealousy knows no bounds!

Sting was not more powerfull than Glamdring and so was not the strongest weapon in marzabul.

I think you missed out the most important conflict in which thing was involved. I mean the attack of five of the Nazgûl on Weathertop. Frodo does not just collapse in the presence of the Nazgûl as many do - he at least tries to fight. Sting at least cuts through the Nazgûl’s garments. Who knows what damage such a blade was able to do to the Ringwraith??

@user-uq1jg8id8l

15 күн бұрын

He was not using sting. That was one of the blades where frodo finds in the barrow whites when Tom comes and rescues the hobbits. Basically merry is using one of the blades that he uses to Stab the witch king.

I had to move on, the pauses are too long and speech too slow. Sorry

@slimjimnyc270

12 күн бұрын

I listen to this at 1.5x speed.

Gordan Sumner 😂

The speech comes across as Slow. Taken too much THC or just not enough sleep? Can't listen too. So Annoying. Tempo, Pitch, Variable volume - lacking. Monotone.