For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold. They gleamed as he drew them from their black sheaths, wrought of some strange metal, light and strong, and set with many fiery stones. Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun.
Rag pub hobyt, ev a dhewisas dagyer, hir, furvys haval orth delenn, ha tynn, a greft marthus, afinys gans furvow-sarf rudh hag owr. I a splannas pan wrug ev aga thenna a-dhiworth aga goen dhu, govelys a neb metol, skav ha krev, ha meur a veyn tanek settys ynna. Martesen dre neb ras a’n goenyow ma, po dre husenn an krug, an lownyow o antevys gans termyn, heb gossen, lymm, ow tewynnya y’n howlsplann.langbot langbot