Rhindon



"It is my sword, Rhindon, with it I killed the wolf."

- Peter Pevensie

Rhindon was the name of the sword of High King Peter Pevensie of the Kingdom of Narnia. It was given to him just before the end of the Long Winter by Father Christmas. Rhindon's hilt was made of gold and it was the perfect weight and size for Peter. It was with this sword that Peter slew the wolf Maugrim. He later used Rhindon at the Battle of Beruna and dueled the White Witch Jadis with it. It is likely that he used this sword during his battle to drive away the giants from the Northern boundaries of Narnia, and that it is around this time that he named the sword Rhindon. When King Peter vanished from Narnia, his sword was placed in the treasure chamber of Cair Paravel, and when Peter returned to Narnia 1,303 years later he found the sword and again used it during the Narnian Revolution and during his duel with King Miraz.

The Sword in the Films
In the films, the sword has a golden lion's head as a pommel, and inscribed in gold: "When Aslan bares his teeth, winter meets it's death" engraved on one side of the blade, and the words "When He Shakes His Mane, We Shall Have Spring Again" engraved on the opposite side. (These lines are canonical. They appear in a prophecy quoted by Mr. Beaver in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.) In Prince Caspian, when the Pevensies uncover the treasure chamber at Cair Paravel shortly after returning to Narnia, Peter is the last to open his treasure chest in which he recovers Rhindon. At the conclusion of the film he passes the sword to Caspian as an acknowledgement of Caspian's rightful place as the Narnian King. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, it is revealed to have magical properties and Caspian gives it to Edmund to use towards the end of the film. Rhindon like the seven swords glows blue, this may be a tribute to the friendship of C.S Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien author of the Lord of the Rings in which the swords of the heroes Frodo and Gandalf, named Glamdring and Sting glow blue in the pressance of orcs and other evil creatures. This may explain the reason Rhindon glows in the movies.