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What weapons do you own?
Just took delivery of Faramir's Sword (United Cutlery).

OL=42"
BL=33"
Grip is leather
Blade is SS (rat-tail tang)
Hilts, Pommel, Guard are, I believe, Brass plated Pewter

Like all UC swords Faramir's Sword is a "wall-hanger" (a decoration)... it's heavy, not balanced; not meant be worn, swung around, or used to cut anything (not even gallon water jugs, you YT morons 🙄 )
But the UC LOTR wall-hangers are well crafted and look so very cool just , well, just hanging there. 😄
Faramir's Sword nicely complements Strider's Sword, both being Ranger Swords. ( I have Strider's Sword also)
However, Strider's sword is strictly a "movie sword"; the only sword Aragorn carried, (and then only as far as Imladris, PJ, you heretic) was the Broken Narsil, until it was reforged as Anduril.
But Faramir's sword is canonical; it's mentioned when the Ithilian Rangers discover Frodo And Sam.

This one is not up yet (In fact they are all down at the moment), so here are some "horizontal" pics:














 
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United Cutlery's replicas of the film props do look to be well-made. I don't remember Boromir's dagger, and am somewhat surprised by the shape: when Pippin draws out his "sword", Denethor recognizes it as "a blade of my people", which would seem to indicate daggers in Gondor would be of the same "leaf-shape", as described in the Barrow-downs episode. Although some of the monstrosities the prop designers came up with make clear they had no more regard for the text than PJ did.

It's interesting that the draft has "seax"; I suggested a possible reason for the change here, if anyone's interested:
Post in thread 'Crafting of the Knives from the Barrow Downs' https://thetolkien.forum/threads/crafting-of-the-knives-from-the-barrow-downs.23859/post-519582
 
Yep... prop departments take not a few liberties.
I don't think Boromir even actually wielded his dagger in the movies, but I could be mistaken.
I'm thinking the real "Daggers of Westernesse" found in the Barrows were shorter than the Hobbit movie swords (including Sting) and longer than the UC replica of Bo's dagger.
But I'm a knife nut and I still think the UC "replica" (such as it is) is a very cool [looking] "knife."
 
Read this Wikipedia about short swords...
The classic blade was generally about 45–60 cm (18–24 in) long, although the Spartans supposedly preferred to use blades as short as 30 cm (12 in) around the era of the Greco-Persian Wars.

It may be reasonable to assume the Daggers of Westernesse were between 12 and 18 inches long.
If they were on the shorter side (which I'm thinking they were) they still could have easily been wielded by the Hobbits as short swords.
Likewise Bo's dagger may have been 2-3 inches longer than the prop (14 inches) .
 
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It's bit of a stretch of the imagination to see it, but the UC prop 's blade is slightly curved on both edges.
We don't know how much the "leaf shaped" the real weapons of Westernesse were; both movie Glamdring and Sting may well be sporting an exaggerated leaf shape. And don't get me started are Weta's Orcrist for the Hobbit movie...what an abomination, an absolute joke. 😣
I never even a gave it a nano-second of thought to getting it.
 
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Leaf-shaped daggers are common in the real world, e.g.

so could be expected in ME. There are historical examples of Leaf-shaped swords, too, but they were normally short, like this one:

I'd expect ME longswords to be like their Medieval counterparts, i.e. straight-bladed.
 
That top knife is a custom designed fantasy dagger, meaning the customer told the sword maker what he wanted and the craftsman made it.
I.e. it is a bespoke dagger. I'm pretty sure there are no true daggers (historically ) that looked like that.
The second one I believe is an exaggerated leaf blade modeled after short swords of the bronze age.
It long predates by more than 1000 years the short swords used by soldiers of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, which had straight blades.
There are still curved bladed weapons , e.g, katana, falchion, khukuri, scimitar; but, I'm thinking, no leaf bladed weapons since those very early bronze age ones.
 
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