Silmarillion Sigil Set 03

[heget]

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:

Ingwë 01, Ingwë 02, Indis, Imin

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.

I needed sigils and flags for the Vanyar but especially the first Eldar royal family, and I think it took me over a year and four design overhauls before I had something I was satisfied with and didn’t look too out of place with the few Tolkien originals. If you are wondering, here's what one of last rounds of these late designs were:

I had two constants during the numerous redesigns:

• the color scheme : shades of yellow and gold on white
• the number of points touching the edge for Ingwë himself (Elven hierarchy had 8 points for a king, Finwë as Noldor High King had 16, so logically Ingwë as High King of All Elves has …32)

The final design I decided on was very sunflower, but it pairs nicely with all the white and gold trimmed banners. For Ingwë I made two versions of the first device because I couldn’t decide on which color variation. One then is officially for Ingwë and the other can be for his sons. Indis was simple in that I cut the device to fit into a circle instead of the square lozenge and modified the elements slightly, adding some sky blue for reasons connected to Finwë.

Then after writing enough arrogant golden haired lions of Valmar, I made a third variation on Ingwë's sigil and named it Imin.

Comments

[chestnut_pod]

How beautiful!

[heget]

Thanks! When I started making these originally as in-game objects, the inequality of having Finwë and Elu but not Ingwë truly bothered me, because I wanted a complete game, which meant including everyone and starting from the beginning. Having Ingwë and Vanyar banners was a top priority - and also why they had so many versions, as I was still finding my feet.