Favorite Lord Of The Rings Sword?

You mean like Striders sword?

Strider's Sword and Herugrim for me, though I also have a bit of a soft spot for Narsil/Anduril.

Ya I have seen one like it to, hang on lemme pull it up... AH HA! HERE IT TIS! XD www.trueswords.com/Middle-Ages-Warrior-Short-Broad-Sword-With-Black-Sheath-%E2%80%93-Double-Edged-Sharp-Blade-%E2%80%93-22-1-2%E2%80%9D-Length-37132 this is pretty much a copy of anduril but not licensed by LOTR

The Ringwraith swords. Not the Witchking, but the other one. Something about its mix of stereotypical Euro symmetry with (somewhat kriesgsmesser like) asymmetry of blade really appeals to me.

As far as the LOTR and Hobbit movies go, the more fantastical the weapon is, the less I like it. The more historically influenced it is, the more I like it. So...my favorite sword from the LOTR movies is Boromir's. Awesome Type XIV. Wish I had gotten one while I had the chance.

I also enjoy Aragorn's Ranger Sword, the standard, "mass-produced" swords carried by the soldiers of Gondor, and some of the swords carried by the background Rohirrim. Along with those, I'd really like to mention Merry and Pippin's Barrow Swords that (in the movie) Aragorn gives them on Weathertop. These are absolutely stunning, and its a shame they did away with them in exchange for the boring, monotonous Elvish daggers. In the real world of the book, Merry could not have harmed the Witch-King very much without his Numenorean Barrow Blade.

I know its a different topic, but its really weird to me how PJ and his design crew did a really good job on half the weapons and look of the different people, and screwed up so badly on the other half (my opinion). Some of the Dwarf designs are off, while others are good. Almost all the Elf designs are bad. Almost all alike, totally ignoring the different branches of Elves, and how they should be very different from each other, even in their weapon designs. Totally unlike how things were described in the book.

The only thing I can say is elvish blades did well against ancient evil types like the witch king. I did not like alot of the dwarf swords in the hobbit but I did like orcrist. You don't like the elf designs? I think the mirkwood elf weapons should be more simplistic and the rivendell elves have more fancy as they were higher ranking.

Ugh this is very hard. One of the best things about LOTR and the Hobbit (which I kinda hated) was the diversity and concept of the weapons. Love the discussion in the appendices about them. That said, if I had to rank them 1-10 (1 being the highest)...

1. Glamdring. The lines on this sword are magnificent. Never fully straight, with that slight broad leaf shape at the end, and the wonderfully-done ricasso. Just pure class.

2. Anduril. It basically takes the elegant beauty of the European longsword, adds some Irish kingly flair, and gets the perfect proportion in the hilt-pommel division. Love that aspect of it.

3. Witch King. Undeniably oozing cool and badass, the only real knock on it (and why it isn't number 2 for me) is the flaccid grip shape. If it had similar lines to the blades (straight, with a sudden drop of taper) it would easily be number 2 for me or even tied with Glamdring.

4. Theoden's Sword. The hilt is absolutely gorgeous. The two-horsehead guard is probably the best guard in the films, elaborate and meaningful without being overly gaudy. I also like that it's a very broad one-handed sword, fitting for light/heavy cavalry.

5. Orcrist. As much as I hated the Hobbit movies, Orcrist was very cleanly done, with the antler accents and the guard extending to the blade. It looks amazing as a cutter too. Too bad all the dwarven swords in this movie were trashy SLO-looking POSes. They should've just stuck with axes for the dwarves.

6. Hadhafang. I just wish Peter Lyon thinned out the grip on this thing. It's basically a perfect elvish-looking sabre/katana that, while not conforming to Tolkien lore, is extremely expressive of the grace and elegance of the elven swordsman/woman.

7. Ringwraith sword. Very cool asymmetrical blade. Guard makes it look bad though, with its impractical design and looking too much like SLO guards.

8. High elven sword. This naginata-like weapon is basically a polearm, but the blade length suggests it can also be a sword. Really nice curvature. The absence of any guard bothers me though because it's a two-handed weapon.

9. Sword of Boromir. This is a very underrated sword, albeit as plain as the Strider sword. Small details like the twisted guard make it more interesting than the Strider sword. Still, not much to write home about.

10. Wanted to put Sting here, but the fat grip makes it aesthetically confused in my book. Wanted to put the Uruk-Hai cleaver here just as a throwaway to Skallagrim (who did his best to talk about this sword), but decided not to. Maybe the King of the Dead sword? But it was too blurry. So if not these, then what? The final slot goes to.... drum roll please...

The fricking Balrog Sword. The one wielded by Durin's Bane in the Mines of Moria. Though only briefly shown before its flames burst, it looks like a gigantic elvish cleaver that was somehow corrupted by demonic entities and is now engulfed in flame. Clearly over the top fantasy, but in terms of just "badass," I can't think of any other weapon in the films save Sauron/Morgoth's Mace and the Witch King's Giant Chain Mace that evoked such badassery. I mean, look at it:

Arwen was a real character, but did not have the role she was given in the films. It was explained in the appendices of course (they needed a strong female character that had some action scenes, and wanted to better explain Aragorn and their relationship) and I don't mind the change. Hadhafang is not in the books, but was simply explained to have been Elrond's personal sidearm in the first war against Sauron.

A ricasso is the area of the blade between the guard and the sharp portion of the blade. It's often unsharpened, but some swords have a sharpened ricasso and in those swords it would simply refer to the area of the blade where the primary edge trails off and transitions into the guard.