DCI: Last Alliance is a submod for Third Age: Total War, focused on the War of the Last Alliance in the Second Age of Middle-earth.
Render: Last Alliance of Elves and Men
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Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien Sinome Maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-Metta
"Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place I will abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world."
The Descendants and Friends of Elwe Thingol, first High King of the Teleri.
I think that Narsil is too short. It should be little longer. It is the tallest sword of the men, wielded by Elendil the Tall himself.
It's a long sword so lenghth is good :)
Tolkien did not give us measurment for it, can be noted.
Furthermore it was used by Elendil, though it was not made for him but an ancient heirloom. It was made by the Dwarven smith Telchar some 3500 years before was Elendil born or inherited it, it was not designed for him.
Question is, who wielded Narsil first before Elros? Thingol or the Sons of Feanor (Maedhros/Maglor)?
Referring to ownership. Thingol's favorite weapon is Aranruth btw.
Unknown. We have no information inbetween Telchar and Elendil. Nor is Narsil listed among the royal heirlooms in Unfinished Tales; II; I; Note 2.
It may be so that the sword did never belong to Elros and the kings, but came into the posession of the lords of Andúnië (Elendil's line) in some other way.
Or it was not counted there as it had not belonged to anyone important in the First Age, in difference to the other listed royal heirlooms.
If the latter it may been owned by the kings and given to Silmariën, daughter of a king, or her son who founded the line of Andúnië. Or been given to them at any random point in time in the centuries thereafter.
But as Elendil inherited it we at least know it belonged to his father Amandil before him.
Aranrúth was Thingol's sword, yes (he died in the First Age), and that was later Elros sword and the kings thereafter. We ought to presume it rests with Ar-Pharazon underground now. If not it sank under the sea with Númenor.
Regarding the latter, maybe Narsil is a random sword in Thingol's armory.
Hope Christopher and/or Simon Tolkien can clear it up.
I'd say this is more of a bastard in terms of length. If you can't fit both your hands on the hilt with a small gap between them or the pommel then you're probably dealing with a bastard sword. You can look at the Oakeshott typology to get a better idea on the difference. Longswords as they are a later developement tend to have longer hilts for more leverage and point control, whereas a bastard is kind of a proto longsword, a stop gap between moving from one handers to two handers.
Please note that I'm not criticising the design at all, I think it's fine as it is. I just thought I'd give my two cents on the matter since I've spent a lot of time looking into things such as this.
PBR Renders do wonders for Med 2 models. These all look beautiful!
The look of the unit is still mostly driven by the diffuse texture but the lighting and shading from the PBR render does enhance it nicely.
it looks so damn good! :) love it. continue the good work!