Week 4: Sauron returned to Mordor. To defeat him, we could use the weapons gathered during the game, and put them to fight by writing for any of the unlocked challenges
Challenge (Himring): En garde! This challenge is all about weapons and weaponry. Write a story about a character's chosen weapon, or learning how to use a weapon. Is the character a skilled fighter, or is learning to wield a weapon a bit of a struggle for him or her?
Summary: A poem about Narsil, that became Andúril
The Broken Sword
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The light of Sun, the light of Moon
Glowed brightly in the blade
The seven stars from Varda's sky
Whose shine should never fade
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The darkness fell with fiery gaze
Upon the shadowed land
But Sword and Spear in alliance
Against its evil stand
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The broken sword, the shattered light
Of Sun, and Stars, and Moon
Yet still it has the strength to cut
The thread of evil doom
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The empty throne, the tombs of kings
The future becomes past
And like a line in secrecy:
The shards covered by dust
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The shadows gather, evil gloom:
The darkness stirs again,
Over the land, menacing cloud,
Dread returns to its den
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But hand will come to wield the sword
Of one with the heart true,
And with the Flame of ancient West
The blade will flare anew!
Narsil: nar - "fire", thil -"white light" referring to the Sun and Moon
Andúril: "Flame of the West"
...on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and the rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes... Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, and its edge was hard and keen.
(J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring)