Real owner(s) of Orcrist and Glamdring

[Alfirin]

Originally Posted by Elmo

Maeglin himself may have forged them. I think it's mentioned in the Silmarillion he improved Gondolin's smithing and forged stronger steel swords.

Only part of them, if that. If Glamdring really is Turgon's sword, then it probably actually came from Aman. It is mentioned in the Unfinished tales that Turgon's sword has a white and gold scabbard made of "ruel bone" (ivory). As I mentioned in an earlier thread, unless there were mumakul wandering around Gondolin, it would mean Turgon would have had to have gotten the scabbard at least, while in the west, and probably the sword as well (unless Glamdring was made in Gondolin, and Turgon used a scabbard he already had i.e. the scabbard was not originally made for that specific sword. If Orchrist is a "twin" then it probably has a similar sheath so it would have to have been broght over as well (unless, again, it's a matter of a sheath getting a second use. Or the swords are twins, but the sheaths are not.)