Silmarillion Sigil Set 02

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Disclaimer: Here is a blend of Original Tolkien creations (aka my best efforts at recreating the author’s drawing), modifications on the original, and designs completely from cloth. Previous Entries can be found under the sigil tag. Please credit if use.

In order:

Beren Erchamion, House of Bëor, House of Hador, House of Haleth

Notes:

Yes, I'm reposting these once more. Because if people in the Silmarillion/Tolkien fandom continue to use them, I want nice official links to them. And so another crosspost from tumblr project is born.
 

And because I started with Lúthien, I’ll continue with Beren Erchamion/Beren Camlost and the rest of the Houses of the Edain. All four are almost direct copies of Tolkien’s watercolors of the four sigils. The iconography of Beren is simple to understand: the black tri-peak of Thangorodrim before the horizon, the red hand he lost to Carcharoth, what is likely the Silmaril in the center, and the star of hope above.

It was hard to pick the precise and accurate hues and shades of color for Bëor off the scans of the original images. I went with muted colors I thought worked well. The dsign itself is very simple and abstract and follows elven instead of human symmetry (radial instead of vertical, probably Tolkien making a point of while the Hadorim superficially looked most elven, it was the Bëor with the greater spirituality).

I like to call the Hador sigil Conan the Color-blind. Eesh. Spears and mountains on a misty gray background.

For Haleth I removed the lines of green ‘vines’ on the nut-bearing tree because it destroyed the vertical symmetry and looked ugly. Therefore it’s not 100% accurate to Tolkien’s design.