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Tom Bombadil recovers four magical daggers, forged by the Men of Westernesse to fight the powers of Angmar, from a tomb guarded by the Barrow-wight. After opening the barrow and freeing the hobbits, Tom Bombadil gives them the weapons, saying "Old knives are long enough as swords for hobbit-people".
Having gathered a company of Irish knights, Horn sets sail for Westernesse, only to find out that the marriage had already taken place. Disguised as an old palmer, having darkened his skin, Horn infiltrates the castle of King Modi, where the wedding feast is taking place, and contrives to return to her the ring she had given him at the time of ...
Westernesse is a fictional kingdom in the Middle English romance of King Horn. It also featured in the writings of Tolkien as a translation of Númenor , a realm in Middle-earth . King Horn
Númenor, also called Elenna-nórë or Westernesse, is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings. It was the kingdom occupying a large island to the west of Middle-earth , the main setting of Tolkien's writings, and was the greatest civilization of Men .
In The Lord of the Rings, the four hobbits are trapped by a barrow-wight, and are lucky to escape with their lives; but they gain ancient swords of Westernesse for their quest. Tolkien derived the idea of barrow-wights from Norse mythology, where heroes of several Sagas battle undead beings known as draugrs.
Bollock dagger, rondel dagger, ear dagger (thrust oriented, by hilt shape) Poignard; Renaissance. Cinquedea (broad short sword) Misericorde (weapon) Stiletto (16th century but could be around the 14th) Modern. Bebut (Caucasus and Russia) Dirk (Scotland) Hunting dagger (18th-century Germany) Parrying dagger (17th- to 18th-century rapier fencing)
However, in the last hundred years or so, in most contexts, a dagger has certain definable characteristics, including a short blade with a sharply tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and usually two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so.
There Adûnaic was spoken, and mingled with many words of the languages of lesser men it became a Common Speech that spread thence along the coasts among all that had dealings with Westernesse. [T 5] Tolkien gives a few names in Westron, saying that Karningul was the translation of Elvish Imladris, Rivendell, while Sûza was Westron for the Shire.