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Post by SwordFan on Feb 12, 2011 6:46:15 GMT
Hi Brenno ,Not Canada ,but our customs duties are like 22% of the sword value and then another 14% in taxes and then on top of all that they charge us a clearance fee at Customs !When all is said and done we pay close to 40% of the swords Value over to Customs ! Oh how I wish I was in the US ,Ha ha .
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Post by chuckinohio on Feb 12, 2011 6:46:44 GMT
Whoa now cowboy I'll agree that the Boromir sword does not have the elegance or the lineage of the other famous LOTR swords, but it does have a business like look to it. It looks like it was made for war. I believe that it was made after the time of the great elven smiths, they had either been killed or left for the Havens. The book describes it as "Like in make to Narsil, but of less lineage" This leads me to believe that the elegance, beauty, and magical qualities of the elven wrought swords were not imbued in Boromirs sword. It was forged to be a weapon of war in the time of the watch upon Mordor after Sauron lost his ring(and finger) It looks utilitarian, but has enough character to signify that its bearer is well born. Of course, I could be wrong
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Post by ghost on Feb 12, 2011 7:30:55 GMT
Just the artist's rendition version for the New Line movies. They really torque the guard around way too many times. Brenno's design is much simpler and the fullered blade is much more beautiful to behold.
They way the production blades are made are bleh...
I envision Boromir's sword with a slightly flashier pommel and a totally different guard. This was fixed in my mind since I read the books several times before touching the movies. I kinda have lost how I envisioned Anduril, Sting and the like appeared to me in my imagination. ARGHHHH!!!!!!!! but I do love the movies...oh well.
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Feb 12, 2011 14:16:53 GMT
i read these back in 7th grade and i used to draw my own vision of how they looked. i was a damn good drawer back then too. way ahead of my age group. sadly i used to keep em all in a folder over the years and we had a house fire and i lost em all
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Post by Johan Elder on Feb 12, 2011 15:08:36 GMT
I know someone who refused to see the movies for the simple fact that he didn't the movies to 'overwrite' the film that he had created in his head while reading the books. I'll just have to live with all that overlap, cause I do really like the movies. The Boromir sword doesn't quite tweak my esthetic senses like many other swords, but it really has that 'ready for business' look to it. Funny, but none of the Anduril's really do it for me either. The Ranger swords on the other hand ... maybe its just anti-monarchy sentiments? lol! I'll also add that I agree that Brenno's fantasy blades are amazing!
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Post by Alexander on Feb 12, 2011 15:56:26 GMT
Though I really have no use for wall hangers. I do have a few of the UC LOTR swords. One of the last ones I bought was the sword of Isildur, by far my favorite. Personally I like the idea of inspired by swords no matter who makes them. Cause if you were to limit yourself to just licensed swords of LOTR you would have to choose between $150 wall hangers or $6,000 master series , which they only make 10 of or less :? .
Being along time Stephen King fan I've gotten use to the discrepancies of the books and movies and still enjoy them both.
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Feb 12, 2011 22:20:09 GMT
i read the books in 7th grade and didnt fully understand them, so when i the movies came out it cleared up any misconception and confusion i had. then i read the books again and was able to enjoy them at the maximum potential.
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Post by Lunaman on Feb 14, 2011 2:23:07 GMT
Brendan, I really dig the changes to the Fableblade Glamdring design, especially the new pommel. 'Twould be real nice to see it "in the flesh", so to speak. I'm dreamin' with you.
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Feb 14, 2011 2:28:53 GMT
"In the steel" would be more appropriate, methinks. However, I agree on the changes; it looks like Foe Hammer, but a little slimmer and sharper.
Speaking of changes, Brenno, whatever happened to that new Anduril design you posted on the old forums?
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Feb 14, 2011 23:18:23 GMT
Thanks guys. I'd really like to make it too. I might post these sketches in the designs thread in the hope someonw will take them up. This was the Narsil hilt design I did - you can fill in the gaps... leather wrapped foregrip, long fullered blade. That client turned out not to be able to go ahead. He's in the army and kept getting called away to foreign lands.
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Feb 14, 2011 23:21:12 GMT
omg brenno! thats the QUINTESSENCE OF ALL BADASSERY! id love to have onea those!
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Post by Lunaman on Feb 16, 2011 23:06:50 GMT
Anybody else seen this yet? It's a custom Narsil Frankensword---hilt by United Cutlery, new blade and full-tang reconstruction by none other than Rick Barrett. Not too shabby... For Sale at MyArmoury
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Post by Alexander on Feb 17, 2011 1:24:52 GMT
I have actually been discussing this very idea with brotherbanzi. Couple of things that concern me is, one the attachment of the pommel and the stress it will be under when cutting. Two, the metal used in the hilt, it is very brittle and have seen broken hilts that took nothing more then falling over. The basic UC tang is not as bad as one might think. Pics of broken Narsil and dissembled Ranger.
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Post by birdman on Feb 17, 2011 15:10:45 GMT
I, for one, would like to see someone make a version of the barrow blades that Tom Bombadil retrieved for the hobbits after rescuing them from the barrow-wight:
"For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold. They gleamed as he drew them from their black sheaths, wrought of some strange metal, light and strong and set with many firey stones." - The Fellowship of the Ring
"He picked from the pile of grim weapons two knives, leaf-bladed, damasked in gold and red; and searching further he found also the sheaths, black, set with small red gems." - The Two Towers
After all, they played an important role in the stories as well, if not so much in the films (I thought it really sucked that they took out the scenes with Bombadil and replaced them with this big love story between Aragorn and Arwen: that wasn't even part of the books! The films were good, in and of themselves, but as a die-hard Tolkein fan - I've been reading and re-reading the stories since I was about 7 years old, and I'm turning 40 in a little over a week - they changed too darned much! Some call it "artistic license", but I call it BLASPHEMY!!!)
Sorry about the rant... :oops:
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Feb 17, 2011 15:30:22 GMT
Blasphemy? This. Is. HOLLYWOOD!!!
Sorry, I couldn't resist. :lol: Having never read the books myself (the small print of the paperback versions I used to own gave me headaches, so I'm hoping a hardcover will allow me to enjoy the original books), even I can agree about the Aragorn/Arwen romance. In fact, if they'd removed the entire thing from the trilogy, it would have actually been better, since the romance, in my opinion, wasn't even well developed.
That aside, I agree. I'd actually like to see those swords you mentioned. They sound like they'd be visually stunning.
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Post by birdman on Feb 17, 2011 16:02:17 GMT
If you have an e-reader (Nook, Sony, Kindle, etc.), the Tolkein estate FINALLY authorized ebook versions of the novels. Then you can adjust the text size to suit you. I am currently reading The Two Towers on my Sony PRS-350 (my Christmas present from my parents). I love it, because I can carry a library of up to 1200 books in my shirt pocket. I even have a book about tsuba on it!
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Feb 17, 2011 16:17:14 GMT
I've got a Kindle 3, but it was kinda pushed on me. It's not exactly on topic, but I have this thing about printed books; the comfortable weight, the smell of paper, and the sound of turning pages... They're all comforting to me. Anyways, I may briefly cave and get some of my favorite books on it since I'm going on vacation in April and I can't take my laptop, meaning no movies or internet and I can finish a 600 page book in about a day and a half, so I'd have to cart along about a dozen books, some of which can get rather hefty.
Anyways, before getting further off topic, concerning those barrow blades. What do you think Tolkien meant by the serpent forms? Were they on the blade or the guard? I have an obscene attention to detail, so if they were ever made, I'd want to see them done right.
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Post by birdman on Feb 17, 2011 18:51:28 GMT
Well, from reading contemporary descriptions in the book The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England, in which some excellent pattern welded swords that were given as a gift to a dark ages Germanic ruler were described as being "grained with little snakes", and knowing that Professor Tolkien used elements of Anglo-Saxon mythology in his works (the Riders of Rohan were themselves based on Anglo-Saxons), I'd almost think he was talking about pattern-welded blades, treated somehow so that the "damascus" pattern showed up in different colors.
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Post by Luka on Feb 17, 2011 20:16:38 GMT
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Post by Aaron on Feb 19, 2011 2:48:13 GMT
Would be really interested in how that Barrett blade is attached to the Narsil hilt. I wouldn't trust the durability of the UC fittings though. It would be interesting to see if one could make a functional hilt in the same style without relying completely on a threaded pommel (which seems to work well for DSA). Maybe something like this (whipped this up in Paint just now, hopefully it's clear what I mean):
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