Re: Questions about sting
Originally posted by Cowboyography
Who made it?
Who originally owned it?
Who was it made for?
Races, Names Story any info would be great!
Thanks!
The Elves
Bilbo Baggins
As far as I can remember, it really wasnt made for anyone but it was found by Bilbo Baggins and his other dwarf companions in The Hobbit in the hoard of the trolls that they have defeated.
It was 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.
60 years later, he gave it to his cousin Frodo Baggins to carry it as a weapon and protection for his quest to destroy the One Ring.
It glows when orcs are nearby.
Sting Sword Inscription
Maegnas aen estar nín - dagnir in yngyl im
'Sting is my name, I am the spiders bane'
Originally posted by Cowboyography
doesnt it say "My name is Maegnas, I am Spiders Bane"?
and wasnt there an elf that originally owned after it was forged, before the fall of the city?
it actually means.
[the] sharp-point I am called - [the] slayer of spiders I [am].'
if you will really translate it peace by peace. But I just said
'Sting is my name, I am the spiders bane'
to be most literal. But yeah, it really does mean
My name is Maegnas, I am Spiders Bane
I really can't remember anymore if it was owned by somebody else before. I think it was too though, but I can't remember who.
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It is not known who owned it in Gondolin.
Maybe one of the Lords, but as it's quite short, I don't think it was used as a sword but rather as a knife as shadowy_blue said.
Strange that Sting already talks about the spiders as Bilbo destroyed them far later - perhaps it was reforged or was made by someone who predicted the story.