Tuor the father of Eärendil was said to favour a great axe over
a sword, and he called his axe Dramborleg, which means 'Thudder-
Sharp' in the language of the Gondolindrim. Tuor must have
fought with it in the Fall of Gondolin, but it escaped the
downfall of that city, and his descendants took it to Númenor as
an heirloom. It survived through most of the Second Age, but was
destroyed in the Downfall of Númenor near that Age's end. We
don't know exactly when Tuor acquired Dramborleg, but by the age
of sixteen he was said to be able to wield an axe, the
traditional weapon of the Sindar who fostered him, and of his
own father Huor. After his capture by Lorgan he was held as a
thrall for three years, but in I 491 he managed to escape:
'...he turned suddenly on his guards and slew them with an axe,
and fled into the hills.' (Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin in
Unfinished Tales). It's tempting to see this axe as the origin
of Dramborleg, but in context it seems more likely to have been
a simple wood axe than a wea