Heget's Blatherings

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:

Amarië, Vanyar Green

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.

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.