Hurt and Heal VI: Weapons and Other Oddities

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by mormegil

But really any arrow would have worked. There is nothing really special about it. Gurthang was the weapon that slew Glaurung, a much more powerful dragon. So if that is what you base the like of the Black Arrow on perhaps you like Gurthang even more...

But Glaurung was no way cooler than Smaug, he was rather pituful - he was a mere crawling worm. Thus, he was also slain in a rather simpler way. You needed a weapon to bring down a flying dragon to kill Smaug. And lo, behold, here you have the Black Arrow, which was NOT like any other arrow, it came down from the forges of the King under the Mountain, what more, Bard always managed to find it when he used it. That said, its owner was also far cooler guy than that of Gurthang's.