Silmarillion Sigil Set 33

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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:

Elros, Elrond

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.

Wow, twin designs!

Okay, what they really are is when I take the absurdly, near-impossibly to recreate complicated Númenor sigil, simplify the outside circles, and revamp the color scheme to something coherent and less like Saruman having his Many-Color phase. Elros has all the blues of Eärendil, while Elrond has more browns, greens, and yellows. The design, coming from the base Númenor, is extremely apparent that it takes its cues from the sigil of Idril (which Tolkien explains that it should), but there are also hints of Lúthien’s second device (and the Bëor). Which again, makes perfect sense. I tried to play up the dual sense of their ancestry here, both boys echoing back to the three houses of the Edain, to Doriath, to Gondolin, and even though they chose different fates, neither is more elvish than the other.

And if anyone characters are entitled to complicated, those two are.