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And Bilbo took a knife in a leather sheath. It would have made only a tiny pocket-knife for a troll, but it was as good as a short sword for a Hobbit.
'These look like good blades,' said the wizard, half drawing them and looking at them curiously. 'They were not made by any troll, nor by any smith among Men in these parts and days; but when we can read the runes on them, we shall know more about them.'
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Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the trolls' lair, and he said: 'These are not troll-make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragons's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago.'
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The Hobbit. Sting was a long dagger, the companion of Glamdring and Orcrist (as was Angrist to Anglachel) and perhaps others of the sort.
[ October 04, 2003: Message edited by: Gwaihir the Windlord ]