Silmarillion Sigil Set 18

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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:

Galathil, Celeborn

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 posted the Nandor yesterday so that today I could post the sigils of the two sons of Galadhorn. Yes, I firmly believe in the version of Celeborn’s origin where he is the second son of Thingol’s nephew, and his brother is the father of Nimloth.

First of all, the various grays and the cluster of circles and star are taken from other Sindar sigils, Lúthien 01 in particular. The shades of green match those from the Nandor sigil, because I tentatively adopted an idea from Marnie’s fic that Celeborn and Galathil’s mother was a sister of Denethor/Denweg (Talk about minor character I fell in love with). I love connecting family trees and alliances. So when Denethor and his followers enter Beleriand, enthusiastically greeted by the Sindar, Thingol’s young nephew Galadhorn falls in love with and marries a sister or daughter of Denethor. To reconcile that with the remark that Denthor and all his kin (see, he needs a clan) die in the battle at Amon Ereb is simple enough: have Galadhon and his wife be among the dead. Thus Galathil and Celeborn are orphans, raised by their uncle, and when Galathil is old enough he goes to live with his mother’s people. He is not counted a leader among them but is the liaison between them and Doriath. Thus his daughter, Nimloth, will be in the area when Beren and Luthien move to Tol Galen.

Celeborn’s device is rather simple to explain- silver tree. Galathil I took the same shape and then played around, ending up with these things that look sort of like birds or hilts of a sword. Which I like, especially as a call forward to the events of the Second and Third Kinslaying. (I tentatively picture Celeborn and Galadriel travelling over the Blue Mountains during the Long Peace, but that Galathil dies in Doriath trying to protect his grandsons).