Re: Middle Earth - PBM, c1950 Riddle

From: cluster_user@yale.edu (Cluster User)

Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <4o1r6s$ek9@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>, dade-sc@ix.netcom.co says...
>
>In <Dru0Ht.9t3@cix.compulink.co.uk> drawes@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Mark
>Seward") writes:
>>Can anyone help please?
>>        The greatest of the first
>>        Though not the largest in war
>>        Bound to earth but travelled afar
>>        Fought by dwaves he killed the King
>>        Finally laid low by one sword's black sting.
>>Not sure of answer here. Some Beriland elfy perchance?
>>Catch ya' later,
>>Mark.
>
>I don't know for sure, but I just finished re-reading
>tLotR again and it sounds like the Lord of the Nazgul,
>but I'm not sure if he had a proper name.

I doubt it.  This sounds to me a LOT like Glaurung (the dragon) from the
First Age.  Glaurung was the first dragon and probably accomplished more than
any other in the First Age.  Ancalagon was bigger and probably more powerful,
but died in his first battle.  Glaurung fought with the dwarves (I think from
Nogrod, although it could have been Belegost) and I'm pretty sure he killed
their king.  For a while, the dwarves were the only race that had any luck in
fighting Glaurung (and even then, they didn't have much).  Glaurung died at
the hands of Turin Turambar, who was also known as Mormegil, the Black Sword.
 He wielded Gurthang, the Iron of Death, which I believe was also black.

Try "Glaurung"

Pete Maksym

References

Middle Earth - PBM, c1950 Riddle
drawes@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Mark Seward")
Thu, 23 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000