If Turin's Sword were made what would it look like?

[TrueSwordsman]

If the Turin's Sword were made real what would it look like?

[Winyaél Greenleaf]

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[Finrod Felagund]

That's a tough one, the only reference to a non straight sword I've seen is in LT II , The Fall of Gondolin, where Egalmoth's sword was described as "bent" whether that means curved or bent at an angle like one of the Roman gladiator weapons made to poke around a shield (whose name escapes me right now, but it's not the Gladius) is up for discussion. Barring that one reference, I would guess that Gurthang probably resembles the examples of European longswords or bastard swords

[Hobbit]

As far as I know the word Gladius just means "sword" in Latin. Gladiator means something like swordfighter. But I don't know if the word gladius is given a different meaning nowdays.
I also pictured Gurthang as a long, straight sword, like a european longsword. I always have trouble picturing the color: when I read the Silmarillion I thought it was like a shadow: perfectly dark and absorbing all the sunlight.
But I believe it is said in the unfinished tales that the sunlight was reflected by the blade so my image of it was incorrect.
So I've got no idea how Gurthang will look if it were made real.

[Ereinion]

I'm reading "The Unfinished Tales" and I have a little question about Gurthang,Turin's sword: who made it? and was it a heirloom of his house?