Narsil and Andúril: The Sword That Cut the Ring | Tolkien Deep Dive

The three-age biography of Narsil, the sword of Elendil, and its reforging as Andúril. Forged in the First Age by the dwarf Telchar of Nogrod, the blade shattered beneath Elendil at the fall of Sauron in 3441 of the Second Age — and with its hilt-shard, Isildur cut the One Ring from the Dark Lord's hand. The shards were carried from the Disaster of the Gladden Fields to Rivendell by the esquire Ohtar, where they waited three thousand years. Aragorn bore the broken pieces for sixty-seven years before the Council of Elrond, when elven smiths at last made the sword whole. Named Andúril, Flame of the West, the reforged blade was carried back to the Black Gate where it had first broken — the structural mirror of the One Ring, restored as the Ring was destroyed.