Anguirel (S. "Iron [of the] fiery star") was a sword originally forged and wielded by Eöl. This black galvorn blade was stolen from him when Aredhel and her son Maeglin fled from Nan Elmoth. Anguirel was in the hands of Maeglin when he fought Tuor Eladar, but he was slain and thrown down to the cliffs below. The canon doesn't say what happened to this mighty blade, but given that Maeglin fell off a cliff which only a flier could get to, the blade would be ultimately lost to history, or would be at the bottom of the ocean, or it may have been picked up by one of the warriors of Morgoth since they took over Gondolin. Glamdring, Sting, and Orcrist all survived into the Third Age so it would make sense for the blade of Eöl to have survived on either land or sea. How many hands it came to be wielded by is anybody's guess.
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