upon a time the king caused his most cunning artificers to fashion a suit of armour for tuor as a great gift , and it was made of gnome-steel overlaid with silver ; but his helm was adorned with a device of metals and jewels like to two swan-wings , one on either side , and a swan 's wing was wrought on his shield ; but he carried an axe rather than a sword , and this in the speech of the gondothlim he named dramborleg , for its buffet stunned and its edge clove all armour .