Narsil

The sword was forged "in the deeps of time", probably during the First Age, by Telchar, who was likely the famed Dwarven-smith of Nogrod of the same name who made swords for the armories of King Thingol in Menegroth.

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.

Elendil 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. Elendil's son Isildur took up the sword and used its shard to cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron. Isildur took the shards home with him. 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. 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.

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. Elrond delivered the shards of Narsil to Aragorn when he was twenty years old. 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.

He carried the sword during his journey south as part of the Fellowship of the Ring, and fought with it in many instances. He referred to it as the "Sword That Was Broken" or "The Sword Reforged".

Narsil is a Quenya name meaning "red and white flame". The name is said to consist of the stems NAR ("fire"; cf. nár "fire") + THIL ("white light"). It was a symbolic name, pointing to the Sun and the Moon, the "chief heavenly lights, as enemies of darkness".

2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:
In Jackson's films, Narsil is depicted as a straight, double-edged longsword. It possesses a straight crossguard with axe-like decorations on the tips. The grip is wrapped in black and the pommel is elongated, with a hollow bottom.
Narsil was not broken in the fall of Elendil, but by Sauron stepping on the blade as Isildur tried to pull it up. Furthermore, the blade was shattered into many parts, instead of a clean cut into two parts.

Unlike in the book, Aragorn does not bear the shards with him, but are kept on a display in Rivendell. Boromir drops the hilt on the floor and Aragorn is seen reverently replacing it back into the display. The sword is not reforged into Andúril until the third film.

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
Arwen persuades her father, Elrond to have Elven smiths reforge it from the shards and bring to Aragorn.

2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
The reforging of Narsil is experienced by the player in the quest arc called "The Blade that was Broken". The player sets out to find the last of the Silithair, shining adamants crafted by Elves of the house of Fëanor in days of old, in order for the Elf-smiths of Imladris to reforge the sword.

2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:
In the Extended Edition, Bilbo Baggins approaches and examines the shards in curiosity while in Rivendell, before he notices the mural of Isildur's battle with Sauron (the latter of whom is wearing the One Ring). Although the Shards are not mentioned in the book, it establishes continuity with Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings (film series).

2024: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2
In episode 8, Shadow and Flame, Elendil plans to leave Númenor with Tar-Míriel to escape Ar-Pharazôn and meet with Anárion and other faithful. Tar-Míriel decides to stay but encourages Elendil to leave. She gestures towards a sheathed sword and tells him its name is Narsil. Elendil recognises this as the quenya word meaning "the white flame". Tar-Míriel tells him "Reclaim your Lordship and with this sword, your destiny" and Elendil unsheaths it.

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