Aerandir wrote:
What do you think? I love everything about the movie elves, but they don't seem to do justice to the elves from the books - for the Prologue Elves, they have the wrong weapons. They're supposed to have more longsword-type swords, as opposed to the curved ones, because they're Noldorin, and there was only ever one Noldorin Elf who had a curved sword, no matter what people say about Hadhafang having belonged to Idril - that's just something made up in the movie.
I think they were done superbly. The sword issue, I think, was just to give a sense of the change of time and history. If you look at swords in general, they have evolved into different pieces throughout history. Basically, two handed broad sword (as in LOTR), one handed broadsword(like Gladiator), cutlasses, sabres, fencing foils...
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"I am Anduril, who was Narsil, let the thralls of Mordor fear me".
Translation of the blade.