The Morgul Knifing, a botched job?

[Alfirin]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

You'd think a ranged weapon would have been more practical, since the Nazgûl did use poisoned darts. They nearly killed Faramir with one. Maybe the Morgul-knife's power was derived from the hilt of the weapon, where the evil writing was.

In the hilt, now why didn't I think of that. That solves the whole re forging thing/wasted magic metal thing, you don't have to reforge it; attach the hilt to any blade (we see it on a dagger, but the hilt is probably the right size for a swrod blade as well unless the dagger is fairly small) and it gets infused with the dark power. then when your done just attach a new blade which is fairly simple You also notice that only the dagger's blade vaporizes in the daylight the hilt stays intact .