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Krull
1983 · Film · 121 min
Directed by Peter Yates
ActionAdventureFantasyScience Fiction
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
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>> Or perhaps the word "glaive", to mean a thrown multi-bladed spinning weapon? I believe from Warcraft.
No no, Krull (1983):
Colwyn is found and nursed by Ynyr, the Old One. Ynyr tells Colwyn that the Beast can be defeated with the Glaive, an ancient, magical, five-pointed throwing star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull_(film)
Incidentally, Krull is like many other fantasy films of that era (there was a bit of a trend at the time, it appears) that are very much like (some) D&D scenarios: the plot is essentially a string of little vignettes in each of which the good guys confront some terrible enemy and defeat it, culminating to a big boss fight at the end. Frex, Conan the Barbarian (1982) is very much like that, as is The Beastmaster (1982).