Knives are mentioned in Tolkien's works, sometimes as backup weapons-such as the unnamed long knife of Legolas the archer. Tolkien often mentions the use of shields together with one-handed swords. Both races have exceptions: Egalmoth of Gondolin used a curved sword and the Uruk-hai of Isengard used short, broad blades.
Elves generally used straight swords while Orcs generally used curved swords.
Tolkien writes that Elves and Dwarves produced the best swords (and other war gear) and that Elvish swords glowed blue in the presence of Orcs. Swords symbolized physical prowess in battle for Tolkien, following Northern European culture. Legolas's arrows were all-digital, so the actor simply mimed shooting each arrow. Bows were made of urethane with an inner armature of spring steel. "Extras" swords were cast entirely from urethane, in one piece. "Stunt" swords, used in combat scenes, were made with soft aluminium blades and urethane grips. In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, "hero" weapons, used for "beauty" shots such as close-ups, were made from high-quality materials: sword blades from heat-treated spring steel sword hilts from cast bronze or forged and ground steel. Tolkien devised terms for specific types of weapons, such as lango (broad sword), eket, ecet (short sword), and lhang (cutlass, sword). pilindi (Hooker notes the similarity of the Latin pīlum, with cognates in the Old High German, Modern German, Old English, late Old Norse, and the Dutch. Bow: Noldorin Sindarin: peng also poetically cû ("arch"), Quenya: quinga.Axe: North Sindarin: hathol, Quenya: pelekko (Hooker notes the similarity of the Greek πέλεκυς pélekys: double-headed axe), Khuzdul: bark, pl.
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