heget | Silmarillion Sigil Set 47 (Reply)

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:

Sun, Purple Glass, Cherry Blossoms, Emerald Filligree, Paddle Blades, Red Diamonds

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 some more random Noldor sigils. I wanted to go back and reuse some of the banners' color palettes to expand a few into sets.

Sun was going back to the combination of blue and orange and the sun motif of Finwë and seeing if I couldn’t use that same concept and do my own take. The points not only turned out more flame-like than I initially hoped, but ended up looking like the Fire Nation crown from Avatar. Happy accident. The darker cobalt blue background and a predominantly yellow with only some orange accents creates a more pleasing color combination than the orange and blue of the Noldor royal house. The owner of this sigil would not be actually related to any of the Finwions, but the motif of the ‘winged sun’ will be symbolically Noldor.
Purple Glass was simply going back and using the creatively titled Purple sigil and using the same limited palette for a new device. A rondel for a feminine sigil to complete the set, and the design itself simply constructed by making an interlace of circular shapes. The end result reminded me of stained glass. As the first sigil was one I pegged as Noldor but possibly Vanyar, I can expand of the hypothetical OCs by stating that this is the device of a skilled Noldor family or guild known from their stained glass artistry, which is in high demand not only for the fashionable houses in Tirion but also for buildings in Valmar. ( yavieriel’s headcanon about stained glass and Maiar and Vanyar have been adopted completely).
I had made a sigil using some pink, though I felt bad having a sigil named for sakura and then not actually making a solid pink cherry blossom sigil. So Cherry Blossoms rectifies that by having a clean bold design of the five-petal cherry blossom repeated eight times in a ring, similar to other sigils I have made for female characters like Arwen or Celebrían. And the geometric nature and limited color palette means this device fits my personal criteria for a Noldor instead of Sindar.
Emerald Filigree is the same limited black, white, and green of the Emerald sigil from the random page, only instead of something constructed from simple shapes, here I indulged in more narrow intricate lacework and floral motifs, while still trying to keep the design geometric and bold reliance on color-dominance to fit with the sigils I have set aside for non-Lindar characters.
Paddle Blades was hard to name. I wanted the device to be mostly red and white and to return to the circle surrounded by triangular rays fanning out in points from the circumference which characterizes the designs for Finwë and Elwë. It ended up looking vaguely like the propeller of a boat or plane, or perhaps paddles. Dark blue background a la Fingolfin or Gil-galad, and thus we have a generic Noldor family with a long established history.
Red Diamonds is the same color scheme as Red Loops, only with eight kite-shaped gems in a simple and square device heavy on the right angles. Very Noldor.