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== [[Literature]] ==
* The Orcs in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
** Played with in the [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|movies]] where elves too use curved Japanese-like weapons, but also Haradrim and Easterlings are shown wielding scimitars along with countless orcs.
***Ironically orcs are mostly seen fighting on foot and would hardly want a blade made for horsemen who need a very deadly edge for split second ride-by blows on a passing horse.
* Mallorean soldiers in the ''[[Belgariad]]'' are described as using large and clumsy curved broadswords.
* Many evil guys in ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' are equipped with curved blades, expecially [[The Empire|King Yezdigerd]]. Of course, [[Combat Pragmatist|Conan used them too, as well as anything else he could lay his hands on]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[1632]]: There is nothing about sabers that makes them any more evil then any other weapon other then that few [[Aristocrats Are Evil| noblemen]] take service with the USE giving them a poor cavalry and hence making them unlikely to get good saber wielders. However people from other nations who use swords are indeed likely to be using curved weapons whether they are good or bad.
* In [[Belisarius Series]] the title character goes into battle once with a "Persian Sword."
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' has also used several curved swords himself, including scimitars, sabers and tulwars ([[Knife Nut|which are wrongly described as long knives]]). He however often stated that he was at his best with a western longsword.
* Averted and played straight in ''[[The Dark Elf Trilogy]]'' and the rest of ''[[The Legend of Drizzt]]''. Drizzt Do'Urden (a dark elf but one of the most morally upright characters in whole series) wields [[Dual-Wielding|twin scimitars]], but so do some of the [[Exclusively Evil|other drow.]] Note however that in contrast to the typical drow, [[Defector From Decadence|Zaknafein]] used straight blades.
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