As far as I can remember, it really wasnt made for anyone but it was found by Bilbo Baggins and his other dwarf companions in The Hobbit in the hoard of the trolls that they have defeated.
It was a knife manufactured in Gondolin in the First Age, carried away as spoil by the creatures of Morgoth who destroyed that city. It was rediscovered millennia later in a troll-hoard by Bilbo Baggins, who named it Sting after using it to rescue the companions of Thorin Oakenshield from the giant spiders of Mirkwood.
60 years later, he gave it to his cousin Frodo Baggins to carry it as a weapon and protection for his quest to destroy the One Ring.
It glows when orcs are nearby.
Sting Sword Inscription
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Maegnas aen estar nín - dagnir in yngyl im
'Sting is my name, I am the spiders bane'
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It is not known who owned it in Gondolin.
Maybe one of the Lords, but as it's quite short, I don't think it was used as a sword but rather as a knife as shadowy_blue said.
Strange that Sting already talks about the spiders as Bilbo destroyed them far later - perhaps it was reforged or was made by someone who predicted the story.
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i thought it was kind of weird that the sword mentioned spiders, but maybe it is because of ered gorgoroth where ungoliants offspring were, but then again the people of gondolin rarely left the city, who knows?
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