What Is The Black Sword In Rings Of Power's SDCC Trailer?
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power shows a strange black sword — here are our thoughts on what this relic could be. Mere days after a packed teaser, Amazon has dropped yet another trailer for The Rings of Power during a highly-anticipated panel at SDCC 2022. Between the Balrog cameo and Sauron speculation, one standout feature from this new footage is a magical black sword.
The black blade first appears in The Rings of Power's SDCC 2022 trailer as a broken hilt held by Tyroe Muhafidin's Theo — a human character created especially for TV. A second shot then shows the sword magically reforging in a hazy wisp of smoke and fire, remaking the blade as if it were never broken. The very same hilt can be spotted in Amazon's The Rings of Power character posters, and the icy symbol cracking across an anvil in the SDCC 2022 trailer looks suspiciously similar to the mark upon the black sword's hilt. Evidently, this weapon plays a big role in The Rings of Power.
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There's no irrefutable parallel between The Rings of Power's dark blade and existing Lord of the Rings mythology, but a famous magical black sword does exist in Middle-earth history books — Gurthang. Not only was Gurthang broken in the First Age (explaining its state of disrepair in The Rings of Power), but the sword possessed magical properties and a spirit of its own (explaining the strange reforging). Gurthang shouldn't appear in a Second Age Lord of the Rings story by rights, and this sword might be a totally new addition for The Rings of Power. But if the mystery blade does have roots in the source material (and if we assume Gorr didn't simply drop his necrosword in the wrong franchise),
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