heget | Silmarillion Sigil Set 49

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:

Dwarrowdame, Guilin

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. Follower Request hour lead to the recreation of two more new sigils that both ended up a tad elaborate.

Dwarrowdame is for cybermanolo who asked if I could make a sigil for one of their dwarven OCs. Now just because the various dwarven groups and city-states undoubtedly had their own styles of heraldry, that doesn’t mean those long centuries of cultural exchange in the Pre-Sun Era of Beleriand with Menegroth, and later Nargothrond and then Ost-in-Edhil in the Second Age there wouldn’t develop a style for personal heraldry embracing elven concepts. At least that’s my Wastonian answer. So using her clothing as inspiration, I made a sigil to reflect this noble lady’s skill and sense of refinement.

The second request was for a canon character; houseofguilin obviously wished for Gwindor and Gelmir’s father, Guilin. For Guilin I naturally started back at Gwindor’s sigil and removed the fleur-de-lys. From there I went in the direction of a floral element fanning out at the points. By the end of it, the device became very intricate and left no doubt in my personal head-canons that Gulin was a Noldo trying harder than he needed to impress everyone in Nargothrond. His sons love him, though (if not his corny dad jokes).