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:

Elmo, Nimloth, Círdan

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.

More Iathrim today! And a lord of the Falathrim. This one is a mixed bag of characters, all unified in their positions as important auxiliary characters to the Sindar in Beleriand.

First up, my favorite minor character of all time, because he provides handy explanations for such questions I care about as: where do all these kinsman of Thingol like Celeborn and Eöl and Nimloth connect? Who was leading the Eglath during the search for Elu when Olwë and his portion of the Teleri abandoned the search? How easy is to generate interest in the various elves of the Silmarillion when I offhand mention one was named Elmo? (It is a most amusing tactic.)

So his design, which currently pulls double duty for him and his son Galadhon, has the basic outline from Celeborn and Galathil, the art nouveau flower designs of the rest of the Sindar, and a bit of the dreaded aqua of Elu.

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Nimloth is Galathil’s daughter- she married Lúthien and Beren’s son Dior. Becomes the only other Queen of Doriath, filling in the shoes of a minor goddess. (Why is there virtually nothing written about Dior and Nimloth? Because they sound fascinating. Dior is technically the first half-elf or something.)
Nimloth’s device came about because the white flower I was building became too elaborate and large for possible use in Galadriel. But it was perfect nearly on its own for the maiden whose name literally means ‘White Flower’.

Her background colors are the darkest shade of the Nandor green and a bit of the evergreen in Mirkwood (my tentative idea is if Oropher has any connection to Sindar royalty, it is through Nimloth’s mother.)

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With the shipwright I had an easy time deciding on motifs to work into his device. Waves and a ship’s wheel cover the bases- and I chose the colors deliberately. Gil-galad of those silver stars on a dark blue background was sent as a young child to foster with Círdan for safety. So as much as Gil-galad’s device echos that of Fingon and Fingolfin before him, I also wanted parallels to Círdan. Círdan also mentors Eärendil, so all three need to fit together.
And like Eärendil, his sigil is not perfectly symmetrical. Oops.

Well, Círdan had a beard. He can break a few elven conventions.