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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BendBars/LiftGates" data-source="post: 4521306" data-attributes="member: 58779">You could just consider a different interpretation of magic items. They're not the World of Warcraft "fire streaming from your gem-studded axe" items. But the barrow-knives that the hobbits carried for almost the entirety of the Lord of the Rings were "magic" items. Legolas certainly had some kind of elven magic woven into his bow, and he probably got a higher-level item from Galadriel. I would guess that any weapon with a name (Theoden's sword Herugrim, Eomer's sword Guthwine, Bard's Black Arrow) is deserving of some magic, as it was made by elves or dwarves or Numenoreans or whatever. Then there are weapons that are clearly magic: Orcrist, Glamdring, Sting, etc. Then there are weapons that are clearly high-powered magic items: Narsil, Anduril, Grond.The Lord of the Rings included plenty of magic items that have continued on through the generations of D&D: elven rope, boots and cloaks of elvenkind, elven chainmail. It's just that they're subtler. Even the most famous magic item in all of modern fantasy, The Ring, never shot lasers or gave anyone a +28 damage to Ice attacks.</blockquote>