Also known as: The Morgul-Knife
The accursed knife of the Witch-king, with which he stabbed Frodo in the shoulder on Weathertop. Its point breaks off in the wound and works inward toward the heart; had it reached Frodo's, he would have become a wraith under the dominion of the Nine — lesser, Gandalf judged, and enslaved. Frodo's strength resisted it for seventeen days until Elrond's craft removed the splinter, but the wound never wholly healed: every year on its anniversary it pained him, until he sought healing beyond the sea.