Hey LotR fans

Yea, I love those guys. There's something about the underplayed ridiculousness of their interactions that I find absolutely hilarious.

Rofl! Language warning on this one


oh and also;



Nothing wrong with a good spoof

It's a blinking wallhanger for the love of God. I paid $124.50 for my United Cutlery Narsil from my wholesaler back in 2003 and it looks just as nice hanging on the wall as this $9000.00 one looks.

A fool and their money are easily parted. If someone were to give me this piece of crap, I would auction it off and augment my collection with an assortment of real swords on my 'to get' list.

Due to Odingaard's reference to the $9000 ZND pricetag, I assume that he means the Anduril in the OP.

And yes, I would do the same thing, and get a few Fables, Tinkers, and Odins instead. Heaven. ;D lol

-Slayer

I like the LOTR letters...don't know where they came from but basically, everyone writes in their own voice/diary- funny stuff!

I'm not sure you can make that statement without having actually handled one or talked to the maker. To say that Peter Lyon would make a wallhanger is an insult to his craft. We don't actually know what it is made out of and it really doesn't scream wallhanger to me. It's like saying anything over a certain price is a wallhanger. I've known guys who have used several thousand dollar swords for cutting. I don't think it would be a wallhanger.

Actually, all swords are wall hangers for the most part- that is, most of us hang ours on a wall. I realize the derogatory inference that Odingaard used- I understand where he's coming from. I also understand where Chris B is coming from- two sides of the same coin.

What one would consider a useless or bad investment, is right up the alley of another. As I stated before, the people who can afford these types of pieces snap them up like we do VA Signature pieces. I don't know about you all, but when I do get my first VA Signature, its going to hit my pockets pretty hard.

The market Peter Lyon is catering to wipes their ass with the cost of that VA Signature daily, most likely. Its huge to us because the focus of the forum is sub-$300 swords, and while we do dally with the upscale market stuff, by and large we hover at or near the $1000 mark. Since that sword is nearly 6 times that, it is unfathomable to some of us that anyone would pay that kind of money for a replica sword.

And yet, if you visit the Nihonto forums (wherever they may be) you will see that the sum of $9000NZD is not so high as to be unseemly to them. They would understand that you pay for the craftsmanship, but also brand recognition, uniqueness, etc - and not just the sword itself. This is a sword handmade by Peter Lyon himself- I would equate that to Sting giving you a concert in your backyard and then pressing the CD himself and hand delivering it to you after the performance.

Ok, that might be a bit of a stretch but I'm sure most, if not all of you will get the inference.

So Odin, does that mean Du Sith is a wallhanger? Or any sword made by Jake Powning or any other high priced smith? Because honestly how many people would spend that much money and then cut with the sword?

I'd have to disagree on this one, Odin. It is the United Cutlery swords that should be seen as the "unworthy duplicates" in this discussion. The swords in question, however, are an artistic impression created by the man who created the design in the first place. They are his artistic impression of Anduril, not a reproduction of someone else's.

How many Atlantean swords did Albion make? Were those mere wallhangers simply because they were duplicates of the movie sword? And what about the Atlanteans and the Father's swords that Brendan and Jeff made. Should those be scorned because they weren't completely original artistic impressions? Hell Jeff made his nearly 100% film accurate.

I'm thinking Lyon's swords are getting a lot of flack just because of the crappy United Cutlery versions, but you don't scorn the Albion Atlantean just because some chinese forges churn out a few cheapies based on it. No one bags on high-end katana just because a few kids think their 20 dollar wallhanger can chop iron.