It was a symbolic name, pointing to the Sun and the Moon, the " chief heavenly lights, as enemies of darkness". The name is said to consist of the stems NAR ("fire" cf. Narsil is a Quenya name meaning "red and white flame". He referred to it as the "Sword That Was Broken" or "The Sword Reforged". He carried the sword during his journey south as part of the Fellowship of the Ring, and fought with it in many instances. It was not reforged until the War of the Ring at the end of the Third Age in Rivendell as Andúril, the "Flame of the West", for Aragorn, who was by that time the Chieftain of the Dúnedain and heir of Isildur. Elrond delivered the shards of Narsil to Aragorn when he was twenty years old. The Shards of Narsil were one of the heirlooms of the Kings of Arnor, and after the Northern Kingdom was destroyed they remained an heirloom of the Rangers of the North. He took them to Rivendell, where Isildur's youngest son Valandil was fostered, but Elrond foretold that it wouldn't be reforged until the One Ring was found again and Sauron returned. Shortly before Isildur was killed in the second year of the Third Age in the Disaster of the Gladden Fields, the shards were rescued by Ohtar, esquire of Isildur. Elendil's son Isildur took up the sword and used its shard to cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron. It is possible that Thingol gave Narsil to Dior and that it became an heirloom of the house of Elros and later of the Lords of Andunie.Įlendil carried Narsil in the Battle of Dagorlad where it shone with the light of the Sun and Moon, and then in the Siege of Barad-dûr but Sauron killed him and the sword broke into two pieces under him as he fell, and its light was extinguished. Nothing is said of Narsil during the Second Age until it eventually came into the hands of Elendil towards the close of the Second Age. The sword was forged "in the deeps of time", probably during the First Age, by Telchar, probably the famed Dwarven-smith of Nogrod of the same name who made swords for the armories of King Thingol in Menegroth. Narsil was the sword of King Elendil of the Dúnedain.
Kings of Númenor, Lords of Andúnië, Elendil, Kings of Arnor, Kings of Arthedain, Chieftains of the Dúnedain Sword of Elendil, Sword-that-was-Broken, Shards of Narsil after its reforging it was named Andúril
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