they wondered if they were still lying there.unharmed in the hall below : the spears that were made for the armies of the great king bladorthin ( long since dead ) , each had a thrice-forged head and their shafts were inlaid with cunning gold , but they were never delivered or paid for ; shields made for warriors long dead ; the great golden cup of thror , two-handed , hammered and carven with birds and flowers whose eyes and petals were of jewels ; coats of mail gilded and silvered and impenetrable ; the necklace of girion , lord of dale , made of five hundred emeralds green as grass , which he gave for the arming of his eldest son in a coat of dwarf-linked rings the like of which had never been made before , for it was wrought of pure silver to the power and strength of triple steel .