The bastard axe, also known as the "hand-and-a-half axe", is a lighter battle-axe specially designed to allow two-handed throwing and one-handed melee attacks in addition to that of the normal battle-axe.
Boromir: "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring II:10 |