Hey guys welcome to another collectibles unboxing and review here on Nerd of the
Rings. As promised we have the sword of Éomer today. As you'll recall last time we opened up
the helm of Éomer, which is still rocking in my man cave. This thing is absolutely fantastic
and today we're opening the accompanying sword so in case you're wondering how it's pronounced it's
Gúthwinë that's what the two the two dots there. All right let's get this thing open!
I'm guessing this is the plate for mounting it on the wall
i'll go ahead and open that first since it's on the outside here all right
all right so here we have the wall plaque it's got the horse design very similar
similar to the Theoden one but also slightly different i love that you know uh it seems
like united cutlery took some inspiration from WETA in you know not making all the Rohirrim
wall plaques exactly the same just like all their weapons and their helmets and
stuff are not exactly the same but they all take inspiration from uh Rohan's horses which is cool
oh man i can already see the horse design going into this i love it
got the the tip cover for safety
i haven't seen i maybe i don't usually get my swords new but i
haven't seen the shrink wrap on the blade usually
all right oh man
oh that feels legit. I love the feel of these swords honestly like this is probably one of
the first replica swords I've gotten that I feel like I could actually wield this usually
they're super heavy like I feel like Orcrist is one back there in the corner you can see
Orcrist and it's just super super heavy but this one i feel like i could actually
kind of whip this thing around pretty easily and we've got the leather grip here
and it's got the cool little uh like golden braid in the middle of the handle which is really cool
that's a cool feature that i hadn't noticed when i saw pictures of it online i love the very top here
we've got on both sides a horse head just a very noble looking horse in my opinion i feel like
that horse that horse just has a noble look about him so a great a a great pose for a prince among
the rohirum one thing that i think is really cool about uh guthwina here is the design of the horses
going around the blade at the hilt here so you've got one on each side so as you flip it over
you know each each horse head one is curved on one side one's curved on the other side it's very very
unique among the blades that you see in the film trilogy and it's not not something that you might
you might not pick up on this this particular sword doesn't get a lot of uh you know up close
glory shots like some of the uh other swords like anduril obviously is very iconic and very well
known and uh sting and orchest you know there's a lot of swords that get a lot of close-ups and
uh you know Gúthwinë is not one of them but this sword gets a lot more love in the books you know
we get Éomer uh and Aragorn together crying out the names of their swords you know he says
Gúthwinë for the mark and uh aragorn says and real for the Dunedain so i always love seeing
you know artwork and stuff of of Éomer and Aragorn meeting on the field of battle and going
to battle together all right so let's take a look at the certificate of authenticity that comes with
the sword once again it's rolled up pretty tight i've got another cool piece of uh concept art of
Éomer which i don't recall seeing it might be in one of the art books but i don't recall it
off the top of my head again we see credited um prop makers peter lyon and sean bolton
and production designers Warren Mahe and Daniel Falconer there's again Daniel Falconer been here
on the channel great guy. It looks like we get roughly the same couple paragraphs that uh we got
in the uh the helm certificate of authenticity but the last few sentences here are specifically about
Gúthwinë so i'll go ahead and read that out he wielded a royal sword called Gúthwinë and used it
to slay many orcs and uruks from Isengard that dared trespass into Rohan Gúthwinë means friend
in battle in Rohirric or i've seen a translated battle friend i guess they're both essentially the
same it was of a similar design and royal crafting as his sister Éowyn sword and Herugrim, the sword
of king Theoden the bronze guard was formed in the shape of twin serpentine horse heads one on each
side of the blade and the maras famed horses of rohan adored the pommel so i was right that this
is a very royal looking horse it is literally uh kind of horse royalty being one of the meras
and of course you'll recall from the films they mentioned that shadowfax is one of the meras the
maroon leather wrapped hand grip was crafted with a twisted metal ring in the center two wide fuller
grooves ran the length of the blade to reduce the weight yet still retain critical strength this
type of fuller was common among royal swords of the Rohirrim and then it goes on to talk
about the design of Gúthwinë and how the Rohirrim armor designs were created with a strong celtic
influence and centered around horse iconography and like i've said many times before i absolutely
i just love the Rohirrim and their armor and their actions i mean who doesn't love the rohirrim
everything about them and the films and the books is absolutely fantastic some of my absolute
favorite characters and uh yeah this is this is a pretty legit sword i'm not gonna lie i i love
the fact that i'm holding this right now um and pairing it with this helmet man i i'm ready if
if aragorn walked through the door right now and said we need to go to battle i think i'd be ready
this helmet might be a little snug on me and my sword skills might not be that great
but i'm feeling bold Gúthwinë for the mark so i thought it might be good to compare it a
little bit in terms of size and everything to a couple of the other swords that i happen to
have here and reel is obviously one that i know is very popular a lot of people
i've seen posts on instagram people getting it for like graduation and job promotions and stuff
it's a very very iconic sword so you can see it is extremely long that shot in the film where
it pans up the blade just takes forever so you can kind of see Gúthwinë here is a bit shorter
definitely more easy to wield though um Anduril obviously has the second you know you can kind of
go two-handed with it which is nice Gúthwinë Gúthwinë is strictly a one-handed sword as you
can tell here um but like i said this is the first sword i think that i've got in my collection aside
from sting that i feel like i could really just whip around and go into battle with if i needed to
um and there you know it talked about in the description the uh the double grooves as you
can see and reel has a single groove the Rohirrim swords tend to have the double groove and so we'll
go ahead and compare it to a Rohirrim sword as well all right so now we've got Theoden sword side by
side with Éomer's here as you can see uh definitely similar design similar color on the uh handles
they obviously both really lean into the uh horse iconography but they're distinct from
each other as well like you wouldn't confuse these two swords which is awesome you know for
a number of reasons for the films it just adds a level of richness and for collectors
um you know it it uh gives you a reason to get both i guess they're both really cool i love
the pommel especially on uh Éomerr's sword here um theodens has always been one of my favorites
partially because you know even before i had read the books he was one of my favorite characters
and it was only after reading the books that i found out that Éomer has a lot of my favorite
movie lines um that are actually his book lines so i have a whole another level of appreciation
for Éomer and i'll probably be doing a video on his life fairly soon here on the channel so i
remembered yet another reason why eomer from the books is so awesome is that it's actually him that
Aragorn speaks to when he says this is the hour that we draw swords together and Éomer is present
throughout the battle of helm's deep so in the films you know he shows up at the last minute that
character that does that in the books is actually called urchin brand so eomer is fighting side by
side with aragorn throughout the battle of helm's deep so definitely if you haven't read the books
and you're curious about Éomer i highly recommend diving into the books or the audiobooks or
whatever because he's a fantastic character i'm super pumped to have his helmet and sword here in
the nerd cave he's an absolutely great warrior of rohan great brother to eowyn and an awesome 18th
king of Rohan and i love the in the books you know it it does a much better job of
showing that Aragorn and Éomer are very much like brothers they're definitely brothers in arms and
uh they become really close and the fact that they become king of gondor and rohan respectively
is just kind of a really cool microcosm of that gondor rohan relationship at its best but back
to the sword itself uh like i said i'm a really big fan it's gonna be hard pressed for me to find
lord of the rings collectibles that i don't like in full disclosure but i i love that this is a
unique style from all the other rohan weapons and especially from the other middle earth weapons
like there's no mistaking when you pick up a rohan sword or helm that that's the realm that it's from
so again special thanks to united cutlery who sent me this sword to share with you guys
if you're interested in checking out this sword or any of their other swords or the helmets
any of those cool collectibles based on the weta designs you can go to the link in the description
and you'll see all their current offerings as well as some upcoming offerings like i mentioned
earlier there's some really exciting ones and in particular some from rohan that i'm really really
pumped about thanks again for watching everybody if you want to see more collectibles here on the
channel let me know in the comments what else you would like to see me review i in particular really
enjoy the swords and the weaponry but i know there's a wide range of awesome middle-earth
collectibles out there um so let me know in the comments what you think i should review here on
the channel thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time on Nerd of the Rings
Gúthwinë for the mark! I'm gonna hit my lens wouldn't that be awesome.