Quarterstaff

a quarterstaff is a long two-handed club consisting of a shaft of hardwood (commonly ash, oak, hazel, or hawthorn), sometimes with metal-reinforced tips.A short quarterstaff is called a half-staff.In Middle-Earth the quarterstaff is used by the beornings, black númenóreans some eriadorians, the dorwinrim, some half-elves, noldor, sindar and silvan elves as well as the corsairs of Umbar, the umli the woodmen and the woses.