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Silmarillion Sigil Set 50

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:41:10 GMT

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:

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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.
No, this most certainly is NOT a sigil for Aragon. But an anon request for Random Fëanorian War Banner/Celebrimbor I Guess but in the blues of my Fingolfin and Family was final push to say, to the Void with it! I downloaded a 30-Day Only Free trial of the latest version of Corel’s program (I used a very very old version for my sigil making and the program got corrupted/obsolete to the point I couldn’t open the layered files anymore). So that request was the final push of Vingilot through the mists to land on the proverbial Valinor.

I will try to make a few more sigils I’ve long wished to make (OCs of mine, mostly) before the trial runs out. But here! Finally rounded out to fifty!

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Silmarillion Sigil Set 36

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:38:37 GMT

The Follower Request Hour!

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.

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Silmarillion Sigil Set 49

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:35:16 GMT

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).

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