he renamed it Andúril (Quenya: Flame of the West). The reforged Andúril is described as very bright, shining red and white with the light of the sun and moon. The Silmarillion further states that the original Narsil already shone in such a manner, but its light was extinguished after it was broken. However, for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the filmmakers opted not to make Narsil and Andúril glow, keeping that property only for Sting. (Gandalf's sword Glamdring also did not glow in the presence of orcs. Peter Jackson notes, in his DVD commentary on The Fellowship of the Ring, that this was an oversight, not a deliberate change from the books.) Tolkien writes that when Narsil was reforged, the blade had "a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and the rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes". The filmmakers had Anduril made with runes engraved on the blade of the sword that read as "Anar Nányë Andúril i né Narsil i macil Elendilo. Lercuvanten i móli Mordórëo. Isil" (Quenya. 'Sun. I am Andúril who once was Narsil, sword of Elendil. The slaves of Mordor shall flee from me. Moon.'), and another inscription on the hilt Narsil essenya, macil meletya; Telchar carnéron Návarotesse (Quenya: "Narsil is my name, a mighty sword; Telchar made me in Nogrod"). Christopher Tolkien suggested that Narsil was introduced during the writing of The Lord of the Rings rather spontaneously: "It is possible that the Sword that was Broken actually emerged from the verse 'All that is gold does not glitter': on this view, in the earliest form of the verse ... the words a king may yet be without crown, A blade that was broken be brandished were no more than a further exemplification of the general moral [that not everything is what it appears to be]." Following this, references to the sword were introduced during major recastings of "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony" and "The Council of Elrond" chapters. Originally the sword was only called "the Sword of Elendil" or "the Broken Sword"; later the name Branding (from Old English brand, "sword") was devised for the Sword Reforged. Orcrist Orcrist (Sindarin: Goblin-cleaver), a sword in The Hobbit. was originally forged in Gondolin and was nicknamed "Biter" by the goblins of the Misty Mountains. After finding it in a troll-hoard, Thorin Oakenshield carries the sword through