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Dates
Presumably, but not certainly, destroyed in the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age
Meaning
'Club'1
Other Names
Hammer of the Underworld

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  • Updated 18 March 2000
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Grond

The Hammer of the Underworld

Called the Hammer of the Underworld, Morgoth's mighty mace that he bore when he slew Fingolfin before the doors of Angband.


Notes

1

According to The Etymologies (The History of Middle-earth Volume 5, The Lost Road and Other Writings III The Etymologies), where the word is associated with a root runda meaning 'rough piece of wood'.

See also...

Grond, Hammer of the Underworld

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