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Grond! Grond! Grond! (anarchist.nexus)
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[-] Stitch0815@feddit.org 39 points 6 days ago
[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago
[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago
[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 18 points 6 days ago
[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 16 points 6 days ago

Carving such a massive, intricate and beautiful skulptur and then proceed to smash it into a fortress as a battering ram is one of the most Orc-y things ever.

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 12 points 6 days ago

from the wiki:

Grond, or the Ram,[1] was a huge battering ram with a hideous head resembling that of a ravening wolf.

Grond, I think you're beautiful!

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 12 points 6 days ago

I fail to see the problem.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago
[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

As a 40K fan, I fail to see the issue here.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

Siege weapon that doubles as 40k audible

[-] teft@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Men have been obsessed with siege weapons since at least the 1300s. Grond is just as beautiful as Warwolf.

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago

The Flores Historiarum claims that the Warwolf sent a single stone through two of the castle's walls in the course of the siege, "like an arrow flying through cloth".[5] Other sources, however, report that the weapon was only finished after the Scots had surrendered.[4] Edward decided to use it anyway, refusing to let anyone enter or leave the castle until it had been tested.[6]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf

I knew it was Warwolf before I'd even finished reading your comment based entirely on Longshanks looking exactly as he did in Braveheart. I need to get a life 🫣

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

"Then Morgoth hurled aloft Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld, and swung it down like a bolt of thunder.

But Fingolfin sprang aside, and Grond rent a mighty pit in the earth, whence smoke and fire darted.

Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leapt away, as a lightning shoots from under a dark cloud; and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds, and seven times Morgoth gave a cry of anguish, whereat the hosts of Angband fell upon their faces in dismay, and the cries echoed in the Northlands."

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Technically a siege-breaking weapon.

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