The reforging is never shown in detail, a sad loss to us later students of elvish smithy! Aragorn tells Frodo beforehand 'the Sword-that-was-broken will be reforged ere I set out to war' and then we're told that it was reforged and the sun and moon and runes that were traced on it, and of its new name, Anduril Flame of the West. The sequence is grand and lovely, but as no hobbits weren't anywhere near the elves' forge and anvil, we miss out on seeing how it happened.
One thing on topic I'm not clear on-- there was no legend about 'Isuldur's Bane' by that name in Gondor, was there? I thought that name was first introduced in the riddle in Faramirs' and Boromirs' dreams.
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