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For priimitives: a sigil following her design and guidelines for an OC family. Colorful and fun, with the central motif of a Dandelion.
For princeofmenegroth: a canon character. Saeros needed his own sigil, so I used the same set of olive greens from what ended up for the Nandor, with touches of grey for the moon, as Saeros’s father was named Ithilbor. The leaves are stylized beech leaves, to match the forests of Neldoreth and the columns of Menegroth. Plus one of Daeron’s epithets was ‘prince of beech and elm’, and Saeros was a good friend of Daeron.
For anghraine: Okay, human characters in the Third Age would not have this style of heraldry, but I made an exception (and our Wastonian answer can be that Legolas and Faramir drew this up for her as a gift). So here is Eowyn in her role as the Lady of Ithilien. Round sigil for female, and yes it has radial symmetry instead of the only vertical of mortals, but then the Bëor also had both lines of symmetry, so I’m not too concerned. Emerald field with gold and silver to suggest the shape of a shield, for her famous deed. Around the border are stylized white horse heads for Rohan, though the stars and floral spikes are for Gondor and Ithilien.
For rabababe: The other elven sigil connected to Ithilien in the Fourth Age would be Legolas himself, so I just took the Mirkwood sigil I use for Thranduil and his son and father, simplified the design and lightened the colors, and added some stars for association with Gondor and its Dúnedain.
For berthelien: She asked for something with water lilies, and I was glad to comply. Especially as I use art nouveau flower designs for my sigils, especially those belonging to Sindarian characters. The Water Lilies work well for any of the Teleri, and the strong geometric element, the central pale yellow flower and white base, both can also work for the Noldor or Vanyar respectively. I did two variations- the second one could work for a male character if the 'points’ of the lily pad leaves are retained.
For yavieriel: We’ve talked about our different OCs for Mahtan’s family, and how we both had the idea of one of his female descendants marrying a Vanya and combining both song and smith-craft in blissful harmony. So here is the sigil for one of Mahtan’s granddaughters, who loves beauty and craft and peace. If I have a Noldo OC of Catelyn Stark, then her younger sister is the other nieceof Nerdanel, Lissë, the 'Lysa’ who in this universe marries someone that loves her above all others, who doesn’t lose any children or stand in her sister’s shadow. Who is quiet happy in her home high in the Pelóri Mountains. The design itself starts with the devices for Mahtan, but more russets and oranges and softer flowers.

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:
The Silmarils

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.

As a special gift to myself and all my followers, I decided it was time that I tackle that last “Tolkien Original”. I may not ever recreate the full Númenórean sigil (but that thing is a nightmare) but there was one last sigil design from Tolkien’s watercolors that I had put aside. It is the only heraldry example we have not for a person or a country or unit, but for an object. As these are the rather important plot trinkets for several stories in the Silmarillion, and that which gives the published work its name, if any object is entitled to one, it would be the Silmarils. Well, I think the Two Trees themselves would be a little higher on the list.

But as for the sigil itself, it’s pretty self-explanatory. Yet another brand new star design inside a white circle are the three gems, and the tree in the background, going by the gold elements, is Laurelin. Don’t ask me why Tolkien only put that one tree - maybe as a balance for all the white trees elsewhere, as the White Tree of Gondor represents saplings from Nimloth, taken from Celeborn on Tol Eressëa from Galathilion the White Tree in Tirion that Yavanna made from Telperion. The tree design is very close to that used for the sigil of Haleth.

In order:

Tuor

Notes:

Okay, so I had Beren and then made a Túrin, and there was a canon Idril and Eärendil, and I filled in everyone else on the family tree but Tuor. So he deserved his own sigil.

Sigils for Edain means only vertical symmetry.

The background shapes with the spears are directly from the sigil of the House of Hador. The black, white, grays, and blues are from Eärendil - as is the star in the north a call forward to the Star of Hope - and something directly copied from Beren’s sigil. The white wings are a nod to the shield he found in Vinyamar and which he took as his token- Gondolin has more conventional heraldry as opposed to the fractal absurdities of these sigils. Also from the tale “Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin” are the swans that bow to him and proffer a feather each which he attaches to the crest of his helm. And waves shapes at the bottom for Ulmo.

In order:

Elros, Elrond

Notes:

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.

In order:

Dior, Elwing

Notes:

What, you thought these were done?

I’d debated on whether Dior Elúchil, as Thingol’s Heir and thus someone who must come in and desperately try to fill his role (We get virtually no information on Dior and Nimloth, which I thought completely unfair because they were the two I had the most questions about and were most interested in). But in the end I made him his own sigil because he deserves some attention. It’s basically a deconstruction of Elu’s, with a touch of Beren’s sigil.

Elwing would always get her own sigil in my plans, and for her device I used the second of Lúthien’s designs as heavy inspiration. Aside from some touches of sea blue-green, her main color comes from the secondary aqua accent and some of the dark green from Nimloth. She was Star-spray, and while I could have gone the route of heavy emphasis on the sea and gulls, she was born a princess of Doriath in Tol Galen.

So, just in time for Father’s Day, two sigils for two characters that are very precious to me.

In order:

Túrin Turambar, Gwindor

Notes:

Not a great deal of characters from “The Tale of Túrin Turambar” needed sigils made, being already done or as a member of a group (human tribe or march-warden of Doriath) and thus not needing one.

But I decided if Beren got his own sigil because of his quest and fame, that Túrin was enough a character, the central figure of his own Middle-earth epic, to need one as well. Followers watched me work on this - the gold is for Glaurung, the red for blood (the red flowers for the seregon on Amon Rûdh), green almost-scale-like pattern, and of course dominated by the Black Sword and the Dragon-helm in the center. It mimics the designs of Beren, and the three Houses of the Edain.

Gwindor, because he was from a noble house of Nargothrond, even if I can’t figure out how or why aside from the fact that he was betrothed to Princess Finduilas, .gets a family sigil. These shades of brown and green where always the colors I had pegged for him, and the white floral element matches the art nouveau embellishments but also looks like a ungulate face. Both are imagery that I find appropriate for him.

Followers should also find this familiar, because it was my EXAMPLE on how I make this.

In order:

Valar, Almaren Academie, War of Wrath Banner, Valar Colored, Valar Colored GIF 01, Valar Colored GIF 02

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 decided to do the odd section. It's a bit of a hodgepodge of Valar sigil madness. What little Valar worship or set-up I had in my Sims 2 game (There are different approaches to set up the appearance of the practice of religion in Sims 2, especially those that play a more traditionally medieval/medieval-fantasy-esque games), I still needed a symbol for the Valar as a whole (and Silmarillion is unusual in the relationship of its “These are not gods” and the elves “They don’t actually worship them”. But then the first elves we meet in Lord of the Rings are singing hymn to Varda on a pilgrimage.). For individual Ainur I just use a color that fit their theme, but I needed a “Valar sigil” for a few rare occasions like the design to stamp the center of the Ring of Doom.

So finally I came up with the above monochromatic thing. And quartered symmetry does not lend itself well to divisions of 14.
If you’re wondering, yes, I’ve labelled in my head which of the dots corresponds to which Valar.

Now the real reason I needed a Valar sigil was because, if you’ve read about my world-building for my game, you’ll know I had something called the “Almaren Academie”, a college neighborhood. And any college campus is going to need a school symbol and school colors and a flag. Working off the Valar symbol I changed it to reflect the Isle of Almaren - and subsequently made the school colors bright blue and spring green. It’s a garish checkerboard. (I’m delighted).

The third image is one of the banners, the more flag-like designs that fit on square and rectangular meshes. This one is the adaptation of the white with gold banners of Ingwë and therefore the Vanyar. But because I see the War of Wrath, when Inwgë’s son leads all the Vanyar and Finarfin the Noldor that stayed in Aman to a 50-year war where, with Valar help, they utterly defeated Morgoth and all his armies, as something of a holy crusade on the part of the Vanyar. They do literally have their divine figures not only sanctioning but assisting it. So, like a crusader flag, I’ve added the symbol of the Valar to the banner, so this will be the banner of the Vanyar soldiers during the War of Wrath.

LATER, I made the colored and animated version:

Something fun for teamainur, because there’s a strong sense of pride I feel seeing my sigil for the valar showing up in places I would have never imagined and it makes me almost as happy as the fans celebrating and creating fanart and head-canon posts for the Ainur. I have always liked the Valar, and they are dear to me as much as any character from the Silmarillion (dearer than many).

Now when I made the Valar sigil, I noted that while making this symbol for all fourteen, I used basic color as my individual ‘heraldry’ for each Power, and that on the sigil itself I had assigned each Vala to one of the circles. So here, finally, is the full color version of the sigil, and because such things amuse me, two gifs of our rotating color wheel of doom*.

Bonus points to everyone that can correctly label which 'slice’ is which Valar.

(Originally Ulmo was in a different location, as I struggled between placing the Aratar at the four points and desiring to have spouses and siblings next to each other, as I also see this layout as the seating arrangement of their counsels.)

*yes, a Máhanaxar pun.

Eru Ilúvatar, if you were wondering, is the large white circle in the center. ;)

In order:

Aranwë, Winterfell, Mithmeren

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.Here are some of the fusion crossovers with ASoIaF. Okay, wait, let me explain! (More explanations for some are in this post as well)

So I mention how most of these random sigils are just as background -to give extra banners in throne rooms for the allusion of liege lords and larger populations. And that also when I have to make all the unnamed background and bit-part characters, the soldiers and servants following our leaders, it’s easier for me to think of characters from other stories and adapt them in.

Now Lalwen/Irimë already had a sigil with what looked like golden antlers. And one of the theories I read that tried to explanation UT Voronwë’s claim of being of the house of Finwë (though like with Gildor “this has to be an alias” Ingolrion I tend to judge this statements as being a vassal under the house) was that his father Aranwë was either married to or the son of Finwë’s daughter that came to Beleriand. Therefore Voronwë was Lalwen's son or grandson. I just went with him as her trusted, overworked steward. So a little black with the gold antlers and I have Aranwë and can chortle about having the elf Baratheon banners to fit the rocking deer.

Winterfell. Umm, yep, I wanted to give the Starks a story where they could stay happy AU family. Pity I fused them into The Silmarillion, so I think my outline ends up killing even more of them, but since they’re Noldor they can at least be resurrected without problems. Because I found the idea of an elf version of Robb Stark as one of Finrod’s ten companions that get eaten by the werewolves a little too darkly humorous. The family is one of the few I have living in the proto-Formenos area, and I can give a long post on them elsewhere. But also- I needed a sigil with that different color scheme.

Mithmeren are the Greyjoys as Falathrim, as explained here. Because the only characters I really care about nowadays are Jeyne Poole and Theon Greyjoy, and I had to give them a happy ending in my Sims game if nowhere else.

They don’t get more silly than this.

In order:

Amroth, Amdir, Nimrodel, Mithrellas

Notes:

Remember me complaining about how difficult it was to make the Arafinwion sigils?

Well, in the process of trying to make them, one of the failed designs was this- with a central elements from Finarfin but in darker greens and four white flowers. Which, after I looked at it, made me think of Amroth of Lothlórien -its lord before Galadriel and Celeborn. Especially with the darker greens and fluted white lilies make me think of him and Nimrodel. Now because some versions have Amroth as Galadriel and Celeborn’s son, while the more common version has him as Amdir's son but good friends with them, I adopt my ‘little of both’ headcanon where he was either their son but fostered from a young age with Amdir, or vice versa. Thus he can have the symbol of Finarfin in muted colors in the center of his device. Which ends up looking sort of like the Cerin Amroth or Caras Galadhon…

Later, I was requested by laurelsblue to make Amdir and/or Mithrellas, so I decided to round out the Lórinand/Laurelindórnan set. Hooray for the Second and Third Age.
While I still hold mutually exclusive head-canons of which background is canon for Amroth - if he is the son of Galadriel and Celeborn or Amdir - he is the second lord of the Golden Woods and the basis on which I worked the rest of this set.

For Amdir I took Amroth’s sigil and removed the Finarfinwion central element and retained only the more muted shades of green and brown - which as they are the same or similar to the palette for the Mirkwood and other Nandorin sigils it works perfectly for this Sindar lord living among the Silvan and Nandor west of the Misty Mountains. I kept and repeated the simplified lily motif and added a very art nouveau inspired stem with double seed pods. And some subtle leaves in the background. Another name for this character was Malgalad, and he died with half of his troops cut off during the Battle of Dagorlad.

Nimrodel took the basic shape and the leaves from Amdir, but a little warmer and golden for the neutrals. The pale yellow is the same from that of Celebrían, which fits their mutual connection to the rulers of Lothlórien. Nimrodel was the beloved of a Lord of Lothlórien, after all. At first I thought to have something blue for her stream, but it clashed. The browns invoke the platforms of the flets of her arboreal house. Overall it feels warm and clearly celebratory of her home.

Mithrellas is an alternate of Nimrodel’s leaf wreath with a heavily stylized flower in pale eglantine. I can make a case for fewer points, as befitting a lady-in-waiting. Again no blue for the ancestress of Dol Amroth, but the white and black center is vaguely Gondorian. And something about another pale pink flower like the ones on Finduilas’s sigil for the most obscure Elf/Edain marriage - and the only one that truly fits the European fairy bride archetypal tale, what with the man taking home a lost elven bride, her bearing him children, and then abandoning the family after a period of years. All other peredhil couples stay together and share a fate (or implied to with Tuor/Idril). So what was up with Mithrellas and Imrazôr?

In order:

Berry Blush Ornate, Berry Blush Rose

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.

Eh, we’re getting towards the back of the list where I have all the randomly made sigils for OCs, background filler, and when I to play with color schemes. Berry, blush, buttermilk, and sand were four colors from the Tulip Grove palette set for certain buildings, so I wanted a device to match. The first Ornate attempt, old as it is, you can see doesn’t work half as well tilted the proper 45° as it does a square. But as I was playing with new art nouveau and rondel designs, I went back to the color scheme and made this flower, the matching Rose. Which makes a matching set of noble family and female scion of the house. If I could ever decide which elves would work. Probably Vanyar.

I promise some of the random OC sigils are more interesting, and I still have named characters upcoming.

In order:

Fëanorian (Celebrimbor), Formenos

Notes:

The banner for the Fëanorians is reddish-orange stripes on a gray field with a yellow insert (I’ll post all the matching banners once I finish the sigils), so I decided there needed to be a simplified version of Fëanorian troops without the yellow insert, a general war banner if you will, with only the Star of Fëanor. Which, if you can tell- the star on Fëanor’s sigil is completely different from the star on the Doors of Moria, and I ended up using the star pattern as symbolic of the Noldor in Exile as a group. But Celebrimbor also needed a sigil, because he though he repudiated his father and uncles he still periodically claimed his place as a scion of House Fëanor. So this is also his sigil. Ignore that it's a feminine design. Or not. I don't care about him, so pick your headcanon.

Lot of stars, but red-orange background.

I borrowed Dawn Felagund’s ideas from Another Man’s Cage about some of the wives of the seven sons, namely that there was one or two Noldor lords living in the area that would become Formenos (royal hunting park, perhaps?), at least one of them a heavily Fëanorian partisan. Thus the sigil I nicknamed Formenos, for the family of Curufin or Caranthir’s wife.

Sort of says here’s a fiery elf with little issues with arson and larceny, necessary requirements for that bunch.

Either one, if you pressed gun to my head and demanded a sigil for Miríel ~~Therindë~~Serindë I guess could work. She’s near the bottom of the list of female elves I like, but as these are both circular design feel free to assign such.

In order:

Arwen Undómiel

Notes:

The only one for a character born in the Third Age, so far. Because I had made her mother’s sigil, Arwen only needed simple adjustments. A different ring of art nouveau flowers. I changed the color scheme to mauves and dusky purples- as Undómiel they struck me as proper twilight colors. Also several of her movie costumes and set surroundings were in that color family, so those plus silver had become my mental cues for her. Compared to some of the First Age designs- especially Lúthien or Idril- it is far simpler. Which I like.

In order:

Eöl, Maeglin

Notes:

Confession: I do love both of these characters- and that I loved Eöl long before I fell into with Maeglin.

But as for their sigils- Eöl has the dark background and heavily black design as befitting not just a Sindar but one with the epithet “the Dark Elf”. The points of his device are black swords in honor of the the two dark sisters, Anglachel and Anguirel, with evergreen stylized leaves and loops for the woods of Nan Elmoth.

Maeglin’s elven heraldry sigil (as opposed to the field of sable for the Gondolin shield) was to take the dark sigil of his dad and add the darker blues from his mother’s side. The bits of stylized curlicues are based on the Sindarin art nouveau flowers, but end up looking as much like moth wings or curving lines as they do any flower. Which works for him.
His banner to match with the sigil actually ended up a personal favorite.

In order:

Nandor, Mirkwood

Notes:

Here are sigls for two generalized Sindar-Silvan groups, both with near identical stories on how I created them: Green Elves of Ossiriand (Laiquendi or Nandor in general, Denethor, Dan) and Mirkwood (Oropher, Thranduil, Silvan in general)

I had some color palettes for houses, one of which I used a lot in the Amanyar elves. I would make random sigils using those color choices as practice. Originally the first one was just a palette swap of one of those old designs. It sat around in my geometric heraldry folder until I was making banners. I applied it to the mesh and thought, “Okay, the Nandor. My Green Elves need a banner, and this is plenty of green.” Art Nouveau pea flowers (sort-of) became House of Denethor (The Original). Another random design attempt had the right browns and greens that when I was pressed to give something to the whole Oropher-Thranduil-Legolas clan, I also revived this one from the back of the folder and rechristened it Mirkwood. Actually I may go back and make a more Sindarized version of this for Oropher in the First Age, but this is the sigil for the Second and Third Age in Mirkwood/Greenwood the Great.

In order:

Ereinion Gil-galad, Eärendil

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.

Two Tolkien Originals today.

Eärendil on the right has the solely vertical symmetry of human sigils (look at the moon phases). In the center is the Star of the Silmaril, which is different from the version on the Doors of Moria, which is supposed to be the Fëanorian Silmaril star- which gets annoying because there are several different renditions of ‘star’ or 'Silmaril as star’ even on Fëanor’s sigil that I just end up using which star fits the design. The blues are good for the ocean, and better as the upper airs of the atmosphere. Like the device for his mother, Idril, there are actually 12 points along the perimeter of the circle, though you could argue none touch the edges of the logenze.

Speaking of which, then we have Ereinion Gil-galad, nicknamed such for the glittering stars on his shield and of which his sigil invokes. Eight of them touching the edges, twelve in total, as befitting a king. And Reason #3 for why I personally place Gil-galad as Fingon’s son is that the blue and silver of this sigil matches Fingolfin and kin, not Finarfin and kin. The first two reasons involve Finduilas.

In order:

Artanis, Celebrían

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.

Yes, I already have a Galadriel, but consider the fact that I have made alternate sigils for when other characters changed political positions- and Artanis/Nerwen/Altariel/Galadriel changed her name and adopted a new style. Plus, I had an earlier rejected version of her sigil (Finarfinwions! Why you be so difficult?).

Still, the old version languished in the back of my folder until I realized two things. First, I was giving Idril and Finduilas their own banners to match the sigils, whereas Galadriel was using the banner of her brother. Secondly, the color scheme would work nicely for a sigil for her daughter, Celebrían. So I dusted off the older Galadriel (which is mostly neutrals and light golds) and rechristened it “Artanis”. Plus, it follows the sigil for Eärwen and thus Finarfin, so internal story logic was upheld.

Celebrían I made the key element of her design a ring of silver art nouveau flowers, which are motif and layouts that I’m making common to Sindarin ladies. Her daughter has a similar design.

In order:

Finrod-Nóm, Finrod, Orodreth, Angrod 01, Angrod 02, Aegnor, Galadriel

Notes:

For my favorite set of Finwions, making sigils for them was a royal pain. Suffice to say, my difficulties with designing and crafting these sigils mean I’m not as happy with the end result as some of the other endeavors. Still, they work well for my purposes.

The color scheme for the offspring of Finarfin take their cues from the only Tolkien Originalfor any of them that I have to work with: Finrod Felagund’s sigil, made after he discovered the Edain, and obviously something constructed by humans instead of elves.

I differentiate between Finrod’s human-derived sigil and the one he must have had before his little discovery by calling that one Finrod-Nóm, after the Bëorings’ name for him. It was a sigil I put off making for a long time because it isn’t made of symmetrical geometric shapes. And after a few years of doing these, breaking away from the pattern was intimidating.

For Finrod pre-Edain, I tried to make something floral, or to hearken back to the ring of his father (the one with two golden snakes with emerald eyes, one wearing a floral wreath, the other eating it). I struggled, and failed, and in the end just did that very curving Art Nouveau mess. But the underlining structure is from Finarfin’s, and I think perhaps you can make a character extrapolation. As a young man Finrod is interested in everything and everyone, and he doesn’t have a rigidly defined passion. Anyways, his Nargothrond banners will switch to Nóm early on.

Orodreth I tend to imagine as the second brother, just because he gets hit with the middle-child, second-born always in the shadow of his siblings and wants to keep the peace syndrome- which does feel like him. The sigil is heavier on the white (fittingly) and the flower comes from Eärwen. Was another one of those “eh, not so terrible I won’t mind it in my game.”

Angrod has two variations not for any story-based reason but because I can’t decide which I like better. I’m very pleased with the clean geometry of his, and the black circle of Angrod 02 is a reference to his name “Iron-grip”.

Aegnor was from playing around with what I’d done for Orodreth. The small golden xat the end of each arm make me think of crossed blades, which fits my image of him as a rash warrior.

Galadriel was one I had made a sigil for but was unhappy with. Then I took inspiration from what I liked about Angrod and did a strongly geometric design in the same colors as her brothers. When she comes to Beleriand, she comes as their equal as a prince, so she needs to be able to use the same banners. The center has design elements from her Grandfather Olwë and is also an oblique ‘braided gold wreath’ reference. Rings, as well.

In order:

Fingolfin, Anairë, Fingon 01, Fingon 02, Turgon, Aredhel

Notes:

Re-posted Fingolfin to show how his sons’ designs follow it closely.

I purposely made them similar in part for a sense of family consistency and continuity, but also because I’m not positive that, say, Fingon would have his own sigil instead of just using his father’s. The reason I made variation of banners is because it’s more fun. Also these are for decorating personal quarters and as story props, so if I don’t do most of the cast, then the few characters Tolkien made sigils for (one for Idril, but none fore the rest of her immediate family except her son?) don’t stick out like a sore thumb.

The lower half of the gonfale for the Nolofinwions is a dark blue with two silver stripes- per the two quotes in the text.

Fingon’s is just a simplified version of his dad’s. The first only has 4 wavy points touching the edges as befitting a son and heir, whereas the second adds the other four points to make the 8 of the High King of the Noldor in Beleriand. Otherwise one could say that the first is Argon (the semi-canonical fourth child of Fingolfin), and the second is Fingon.
Turgon’s is also similar, but with the red from his mother. This is a sly nod to his later Gondolin heraldry of ‘sun, moon, scarlet heart’. Note: Heraldry for Gondolin is much closer to real-world heraldry, and can work on regular wall hangings and shields. In other words, not this square format.
Aredhel is heavier on the dark blues than ‘the White Lady of the Noldor’ would suggest, but I had to make it work with her father’s flag. The silver background is for her, and the floral elements are taken from other Noldor ladies. The sharp dark central flowers are a reference towards the rest of her family.
Anairë is red and blue because those are my colors for her. My headcanon for Anairë ties into my thoughts on the Vanyar as the equivalent of medieval monasteries, thus the Vanyar initially are the ones making parchment and illuminating manuscripts. Then the Noldor would take over, some working in partnership with the Minyar ‘monks’. Anairë’s father, a courtier of Finwë, would go into a business alliance with a Vanyar noble, who would hire the Vanyar commoners to churn out the paper and legal documents that would be used by the government in Tirion. Thus Anairë would be very knowledgeable of court and interact often with bureaucrats there, meeting and marrying Fingolfin. Elenwë, Turgon’s wife, would be the daughter of said Vanyar noble- who is looked down by the other Minyar as far too Noldor. Thus, the flower makes me think of the pages of a book.

In order:

Fëanor, Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod and Amras

Notes:

Ah, what the heck, might as well get these sigils over with. The Sons of Fëanor, with the Tolkien Original Fëanor for reference. If you can’t tell, compared to many other elven sigils, these ones I phoned in because it’s the Fëanorions, and thus I'm apathetic. I excuse that the sigils for the seven sons are so similar to their dad as extreme filial piety - and what with the oaths and the pack mentality and the fact that Fëanor named his kids the equivalent of “Jr #1, Jr #2, ….” I think I can get away with it.

The rainbow center of Fëanor’s central area was my inspiration for the variations, plus the alternate project of complete elven heraldry here by elegaer.

Maedhros gets the same yellow background and 8 wavy lines (though only 4 touch the edges because he refuses claim to kingship). The center is copper to reflect how he has the same hair as his Grandfather, Mahtan Urundil “Copper-lover”.
Maglor has a dark blue field because of his eventual fate, plus it helps to single him out from his brothers.
Celegorm has the green and vaguely leaf or spear-shaped elements because he’s an outdoor hunter.
Caranthir has red for his ruddy face.
Curufin is (well, thinks of himself as) Fëanor’s Mini-me.
Amrod and Amras share a sigil- but they shared a name, and really, I wasn’t going to bother to make a sigil for both of them.

In order:

Amarië, Vanyar Green

Notes:

Finally added the Vanyar extras post. I know my original ones aren’t as popular as the Tolkien Originals, and that the poor Minyar are not well-liked by the fandom, considered boring. But this is a short set, which after yesterday I thought would be appreciated.

I first made these for my game, and because of world-building and actually spending time developing the Vanyar -which the source text doesn’t- they are now favs. Here are the relevant thoughts, but to give the highlights:

Minyar as the equivalent of the medieval clergy class
Who is growing the food and raising crops in Aman?
Celebration of physical activities like sports and dance
Bulk of the elven army during War of Wrath
Siamese cats.

Thus Amarië as the daughter of a wealthy commoner with large land-holdings of dairy farms and crop fields. My impression of the social ranking of Finrod’s love from the throw-away references. He’s only a son of the third son of the Noldor king, so despite a prince, he isn’t high on the inheritance, and I wanted some non-noblity.

Design is some blend of thistle or clover - I wanted the colors and something floral.

The other sigil, unimaginatively called Vanyar Green, is not attached to any character, but made as a background detail and to add depth, as there needs to be OC Vanyar families. The green points could be either green spourts or spears, both valid.

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