Description
United Cutlery, industry leader in fine movie reproductions, has meticulously recreated the actual film prop from Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the Lord of the Rings. Close attention to detail, accuracy to the original prop, and providing the highest quality / longest lasting art piece balanced with lower maintenance were key to this officially licensed replica.
- Overall Length: 8.5′ (8.5 feet ~ 2.59m)
- RESIN BLADE NOTE: Resin items may have minor warping due to heating-cooling during transport. A picture of common spear tip deflection has been added to the listing. Spear tip deflection +/- 1/2 inch may occur and Castle Kon cannot take returns for this issue. Additionally, as a resin item, it is hand painted and there will be differences in finish. Castle Kon will inspect EVERY SINGLE Aeglos PRIOR to shipping. We will personally confirm the paint and tip deflection is within tolerance.
- Includes hanging wall plaque and hardware with steel parts
- Includes a parchment certificate of authenticity
Tolkien’s Lore:
Aeglos (“Snow-point” or “Icicle”) is the famed spear of Gil-galad, last High King of the Noldor, who fell in direct combat with Sauron during the Siege of Barad-dûr, killed by the immense heat emanating from the Dark Lord’s hand. Elrond, herald of Gil-galad, recalls to Frodo the sight of Gil-galad wielding Aeglos during the Battle of Dagorlad before the Black Gate of Mordor:
“. . . we had the mastery: for the Spear of Gil-galad and the Sword of Elendil, Aeglos and Narsil, none could withstand.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, “The Council of Elrond”
Adaptation Notes:
In Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, Aeglos is first briefly glimpsed in the prologue, where Gil-galad (portrayed by Mark Ferguson) stabs the spear down into the body of an orc. Additionally, the filmmakers gave Aeglos a final resting place; in Tolkien’s works, the fate of the spear after Gil-galad’s death is not revealed, but, in Jackson’s adaptation, Elrond himself bore it back to Rivendell, where it can briefly be seen resting next to the mural of the Last Alliance, kept in the same chamber as the Shards of Narsil. Peter Lyon, of Weta Workshop, who developed the blade of Aeglos, called it “The most challenging . . . but ultimately the most satisfying [weapon] to make.”
Peter further described the design of Aeglos for the film, saying:
“The blade is curved and recurved, halving in thickness towards the tip, and also blending into the socket; the lines of the curves on the blade had to work with each other towards the tip without wavering. There is etching all over the socket and along the blade, and to finish it off the vines along the socket are raised detail in bronze wire with the leaves recessed as etching. I was the one who suggested raising the vine detail . . .”
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The script on the spear blade is in Tengwar script:
In Sindarin Elvish:
“Gil-galad ech vae vaegannen matha, Aith heleg nín i orch gostatha; Nin cíniel na nguruthos. Hon ess nín istatha: Aiglos”
In modern English, “Gil-galad wields a well-made spear, The Orc will fear my point of ice; When he sees me, in fear of death, He will know my name: Aiglos”
Aiglos was the commonly accepted spelling of the spear’s name at the time of the trilogy’s production, hence its use in the blade inscription, but Tolkien commented in an essay, “The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor,” that ‘originally the difference between correct Sindarin ae and ai was neglected, ai more usual in English being used for both in the general narrative . . .”
The more correct element ae– has been used in published editions of The Lord of the Rings ever since 2005, and Aeglos is now the commonly accepted spelling of the name.
