The Men of the Sea..... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Neurion · 01-09-2005, 08:40 AM

...Send before them a great cloud, as a rain turned to serpents, or a black hail tipped with steel.

Stirring stuff, and one of my favourite passages in Unfinished Tales, or perhaps any of Tolkien's writing. Since I first read it I've been fascinated by the idea of steel-bows, and I've wondered at the range and power such weapons would've had had they ever existed, not to mention the strength required to draw back the string.

What would these weapons have been like? Would they possibly have been made of spring-steel, or crafted by some lost art unkown to the 3rd Age?

01-09-2005, 08:40 AM	#1
Neurion Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Standing amidst the slaughter I have wreaked upon the orcs Posts: 258	The Men of the Sea..... ...Send before them a great cloud, as a rain turned to serpents, or a black hail tipped with steel. Stirring stuff, and one of my favourite passages in Unfinished Tales, or perhaps any of Tolkien's writing. Since I first read it I've been fascinated by the idea of steel-bows, and I've wondered at the range and power such weapons would've had had they ever existed, not to mention the strength required to draw back the string. What would these weapons have been like? Would they possibly have been made of spring-steel, or crafted by some lost art unkown to the 3rd Age?