Gimli's Axe

Mithr@ndir · 08-01-2002, 09:17 AM

Was anyone else disapointed with the size of the head on gimli's axe? I've seen bigger kitchen knives, In my imagination it was huge and all kewl

If anyone read White Dwarf i thought it would be like that.
Mucho disapointedo

samwiselvr2008 · 08-01-2002, 11:44 PM

i did not notice that it was so small, but i'll pay better atention to it when i wach it on aug.6

Llark silverwolf · 08-05-2002, 07:09 PM

Yea i agree it was kinda small and they should had it just be this giant war axe ripping orcs apart lol oh well ill watch it again and look harder laters

samwiselvr2008 · 08-05-2002, 09:22 PM

only 2 hourse and 39 min. and i will check for you!

Llark silverwolf · 08-05-2002, 10:04 PM

Lol i like sam too! to bad they dont have a little sam face

i take is two hours till you go buy it lol? woooot woot i get mine in about 24 hours till i get a copy i reserved it so i have to get it! hehe bye

samwiselvr2008 · 08-05-2002, 10:43 PM

ya, but now it is only 1 hour and 2 min! yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy *jumps up and down*

it is allmost here! yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

i preorderd it, and so i am not suposed to get it till 10 am tomorow (that is whene blockbuster openes) but i am gonna get it tonight allso, and suport good old wallmart! actually, i am dieing to see the movie, so that means that the sooner i get it, the sooner i can wach it, so i must buy it twise!

i am so tired!

Faramir · 08-05-2002, 10:57 PM

I didn't notice Gimli's axe being small. Any bigger and the little guy wouldn't be able to lift it.

samwiselvr2008 · 08-06-2002, 09:13 AM

i wached his axe on the movie last night, and i thought that it was a great size! i mean, if it was bigger, it would just get in the way, but i berly pade atention, so i'll wach for it again next time, wich will probaly be in a couple of minutes...

Dolenloteiel · 08-08-2002, 03:04 PM

I thought his axe was a perfect size. It complimented his size and costume.

bropous · 08-08-2002, 03:08 PM

Agreed with samwise and Dolonlotiel. Welcome to the Moot!

LuthienTinuviel · 08-08-2002, 10:22 PM

well if it was bigger, it would have taken more effort to decorate it like it was, i say LAZY RULES!

Mithr@ndir · 08-09-2002, 04:33 AM

His axe is tiny. Ive seen nice double headed axes which kick ass . his looks like a spade.

Blackheart · 08-09-2002, 12:43 PM

Pffft.

Any of you ever used a battle axe before?

With a haft that long, the head has to be single bladed, and hollowed so that you can pull it back after a stroke.

Those big double bladed crab openers you guys are thinking about are just that. They were used two handed, and mostly like a pole arm. The only time you swing one of those is after someone is down on the ground and you need to open up their plate armor.

They don't even work well chopping through doors.

The axe you see Gimli using is a quite accurate replica of a common battle axe.

The only complaint I have is that they didn't give him a bearded axe, which is the one that has the blade run down to the haft and attach by a second point, giving you a much longer edge, but a shorter haft (less reach).

samwiselvr2008 · 08-10-2002, 02:49 PM

have you done research on this Blackheart? you sound like you know alot about axes, and i believe that what you said was right, even though i did not understand lots of it!

Blackheart · 08-12-2002, 03:19 PM

Does forging an axehead count as research?

(riveting sucks. I will never try to make chainmail again either. But scalemail is harder on your thumb).

08-01-2002, 09:17 AM	#1
Mithr@ndir Sapling Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: UK Posts: 9	Gimli's Axe Was anyone else disapointed with the size of the head on gimli's axe? I've seen bigger kitchen knives, In my imagination it was huge and all kewl If anyone read White Dwarf i thought it would be like that. Mucho disapointedo __________________ What goes around comes around

08-01-2002, 11:44 PM	#2
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	i did not notice that it was so small, but i'll pay better atention to it when i wach it on aug.6 __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

08-05-2002, 09:22 PM	#4
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	only 2 hourse and 39 min. and i will check for you! __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

08-05-2002, 10:43 PM	#6
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	ya, but now it is only 1 hour and 2 min! yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy jumps up and down it is allmost here! yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! i preorderd it, and so i am not suposed to get it till 10 am tomorow (that is whene blockbuster openes) but i am gonna get it tonight allso, and suport good old wallmart! actually, i am dieing to see the movie, so that means that the sooner i get it, the sooner i can wach it, so i must buy it twise! i am so tired! __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

08-05-2002, 10:57 PM	#7
Faramir Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ithilien Posts: 353	I didn't notice Gimli's axe being small. Any bigger and the little guy wouldn't be able to lift it. __________________ This is the Window of the Sunset, Henneth Annun, fairest of all the falls of Ithilien, land of many fountains."-Faramir, Chapter IV, The Two Towers ========================== FRODO LIVES!!! ========================== YODA IS DA MAN!!! ========================== I Love Jesus!

08-05-2002, 07:09 PM	#3
Llark silverwolf Banned Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: seattle Posts: 10	Yea i agree it was kinda small and they should had it just be this giant war axe ripping orcs apart lol oh well ill watch it again and look harder laters

08-05-2002, 10:04 PM	#5
Llark silverwolf Banned Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: seattle Posts: 10	Lol i like sam too! to bad they dont have a little sam face i take is two hours till you go buy it lol? woooot woot i get mine in about 24 hours till i get a copy i reserved it so i have to get it! hehe bye

08-06-2002, 09:13 AM	#8
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	i wached his axe on the movie last night, and i thought that it was a great size! i mean, if it was bigger, it would just get in the way, but i berly pade atention, so i'll wach for it again next time, wich will probaly be in a couple of minutes... __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

08-08-2002, 03:04 PM	#9
Dolenloteiel I elenfea Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Somewhere in the chaos between the first and second ages! (Actually, CO) Posts: 556	I thought his axe was a perfect size. It complimented his size and costume. __________________ "Middle Earth is a real place. And it is New Zealand." Sir Ian McKellan **************************** QUESTION AUTHORITY Ask me anything ************************** "I have not failed, I've only found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison ************************** Visit Tolkien RP Site! Need members, RP all three Ages! (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) http://elvellon.suddenlaunch2.com **************************** "Yay, I can hear the voices in my head again!

08-08-2002, 03:08 PM	#10
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Agreed with samwise and Dolonlotiel. Welcome to the Moot! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

08-08-2002, 10:22 PM	#11
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	well if it was bigger, it would have taken more effort to decorate it like it was, i say LAZY RULES! __________________

08-09-2002, 04:33 AM	#12
Mithr@ndir Sapling Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: UK Posts: 9	His axe is tiny. Ive seen nice double headed axes which kick ass . his looks like a spade. __________________ What goes around comes around

08-09-2002, 12:43 PM	#13
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Pffft. Any of you ever used a battle axe before? With a haft that long, the head has to be single bladed, and hollowed so that you can pull it back after a stroke. Those big double bladed crab openers you guys are thinking about are just that. They were used two handed, and mostly like a pole arm. The only time you swing one of those is after someone is down on the ground and you need to open up their plate armor. They don't even work well chopping through doors. The axe you see Gimli using is a quite accurate replica of a common battle axe. The only complaint I have is that they didn't give him a bearded axe, which is the one that has the blade run down to the haft and attach by a second point, giving you a much longer edge, but a shorter haft (less reach). __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

08-10-2002, 02:49 PM	#14
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	have you done research on this Blackheart? you sound like you know alot about axes, and i believe that what you said was right, even though i did not understand lots of it! __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

08-12-2002, 03:19 PM	#15
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Does forging an axehead count as research? (riveting sucks. I will never try to make chainmail again either. But scalemail is harder on your thumb). __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

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