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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5681849" data-attributes="member: 58197">Legolas did have a long knife. It was mentioned someplace or other (Helm's Deep, I think?), but I don't think it's ever indicated whether it was like Sting. Legolas being an archer, he didn't have occasion to use it very much. His bow was presumably fairly spiffy, and then he got an extra-super-spiffy one from Galadriel.Meanwhile, there was explicitly a second Sting-type weapon right in the Fellowship: Gandalf's sword Glamdring. Anduril may not have been the exact same type of weapon as Sting, but it was surely at least as good. Then you've got the other hobbits with their barrow-blades, not up to the Sting standard but pretty effective against the Witch-King... the Fellowship was loaded down with magic weapons of one type or another.You're on firmer ground with the mithril-coat, which does appear to be oddly unique considering how casually Thorin gave it to Bilbo. (Though it didn't stop a cave-troll's attack, just an orc spear.) Still, I don't think it's totally implausible that Boromir doesn't have one. I seem to recall it being mentioned that Sauron wanted all the mithril he could get his hands on, and he's had a lot of time to collect it. For all we know, the Witch-King was wearing some; the wounds that killed him were in the back of the knee and the face (ouch!), which a mail shirt would not have stopped.Er, no, it doesn't. Being important to the plot would make them plot points. Being singular--well, Sting isn't singular, but if it was, it would make it singular. Contrariwise, as it isn't, it ain't.</blockquote>

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