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Originally Posted by Alfirin
It still seems like an awful lot of metal to use. If all you need is a splinter why not an arrow, or a dart. Unless maybe it's meant to splinter, but one can take the reaminder back and re-forge it (or sharpen it till it has a point again) and it's re-usable then (in which case dropping it is still a mistake).
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You'd think a ranged weapon
would have been more practical, since the Nazgûl did use poisoned darts. They nearly killed Faramir with one. Maybe the Morgul-knife's power was derived from the hilt of the weapon, where the evil writing was.