Sting

Balrog1910 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:26 pm

There is one movie version but you should NEVER watch it! Gollum looks like a frog and is the height of a man! Smaug has the head of a chiuahua! (is that spelled right?)

Quickblade · **Posted:** Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:11 pm

Let's stay on topic. I wanted to add that at first I didn't catch that the blade was from the gladius instead of the rogue biter. Extra points for that

SureShot_KerShot_ · **Posted:** Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:39 am

Quickblade wrote:

Let's stay on topic. I wanted to add that at first I didn't catch that the blade was from the gladius instead of the rogue biter. Extra points for that

Thanks! The reason I did that was because the rogue biter blade is way to short.

Thanks for comments!

-SureShot

Hothram · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:52 pm **Posts:** 60

SureShot_KerShot_ wrote:

Quickblade wrote:

Let's stay on topic. I wanted to add that at first I didn't catch that the blade was from the gladius instead of the rogue biter. Extra points for that

Thanks! The reason I did that was because the rogue biter blade is way to short.

Sting is short- it's only a sword for Bilbo because he's shorter even than the dwarves. When they find it, it's described as a dagger.

Balrog1910 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 30, 2011 7:18 pm

Yes but it also said it was as good as a sword for a Hobbit. Therefore, it can't be that short!

Shadow Viking · **Posted:** Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:09 pm

It's as good as a sword for a Hobbit because Hobbits are so small that an Elf's knife is proportionally the size of a sword to a Hobbit.

Biohazard · **Posted:** Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:51 pm

Sting is about 20" long including handle.
That's about the length of a blade of a gladius.
Therefore, Sting sits somewhere between Dagger and Short sword.

Shadow Viking · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:53 am

Biohazard wrote:

Sting is about 20" long including handle.
That's about the length of a blade of a gladius.
Therefore, Sting sits somewhere between Dagger and Short sword.

[citation needed]

Biohazard · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:23 pm

Who needs citation when you have google?

Shadow Viking · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:47 pm

Biohazard wrote:

Who needs citation when you have google?

the only references I found to a 20" Sting are related to the film prop or replicas. If you're referring to more accurate source (Tolkien's letters, or a passage in the book) I can't find it and would appreciate sauce. Otherwise, I call BS.

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