A knife manufactured in Gondolin in the First Age, carried away as spoil by the creatures of Morgoth who destroyed that city. It was rediscovered millennia later in a troll-hoard by Bilbo Baggins, who named it Sting after using it to rescue the companions of Thorin Oakenshield from the giant spiders of Mirkwood.
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These are the dates of the founding and destruction of Gondolin. Since we know that Sting was made in that city, it must have been forged between these two dates. |
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