heget: custom sigil in blue and gold (Default)

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:

Poppies, Snow Lilies

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.

A pair of floral feminine sigils for two Noldor ladies. Both are inspired by motif requests - laurelsblue asked for poppies and evenelvish requested snow and lilies. The Poppies are directly inspired by one of Alphonse Mucha’s color lithographs, and the bold colors and geometric maze-work fit the Noldor aesthetic to my original sigil designs. Art nouveau flowers, however, are a Sindarin element, so my story for this device is that it belongs to a Noldor lady born in the Second or Third Age, when the Sindarin culture brought back by the returning Exilies and thousands of elves reembodied in Valinor have influenced visual design in Aman. She’s a very trendy and fashionable young lady and writes sappy poetry about Edain heroes.

The Snow Lilies is the sigil for my OC from this family - if I have a Noldor version of the Starks of Winterfell, I have to have the elven version of Sansa. All her family but her mother and baby brother go into Exile (Most will stay Cousin Edrahil under Finrod), though her father died at Alqualondë, and she breaks off her betrothal to a blonde Vanya punk and goes to live with a much happier and healthier Aunt Lysa. Nor does she lose her Valinorean Hound, Lady. The color scheme is the same as Winterfell, and for once a white flower on a sigil that isn’t nimphredil.

heget: custom sigil in blue and gold (Default)

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:
Sakurai, Heledir, Soldier

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.

Some sigils for various OC elves serving in armies during the First Age of Beleriand. While the first makes even the most Klingon of my Vanyar look gentle, the next two are for characters familiar to readers of Beren's Band of the Red Hand.

 

  • The first one is when I decided to play around with pinks and greens. And as I made the sigil, I realized that as this was a device for a diagonal lozenge - that is a male-identifying character - I started to imagine just who this was. Anyways, pink until recently was considered a manly color in Western culture. The greens are among the various shades I tend to give to Sindar, Silvan, and especially Nandor elves. Thus I had the idea of a Nandor scout and leader that delighted in the brink light pink blossoms of fruit trees, who wore a crown of cherry blossoms that stood out from the rest of his green camouflage. A captain that laughed from the tree branches as he slaughtered orcs, as brilliantly ornamental and viciously territorial as a hummingbird (and for those unfamiliar with those buzzers, there is a good reason the Aztec god of war was associated with them). Flamboyant, charismatic, vengeful, this Nandor guerrilla warrior tolerates no outsiders in his forests but a few Sindar and Beren and Lúthien - and only in honor of Denethor and Thingol’s charge to Amon Ereb. He has no love for the Second-Comers, would gleefully turn the Fëanorians into giant pincushions if he ever found them alone, and the orcs flee screaming in terror if they smell the scent of the cherry blossoms. The soldiers of the Army of Valar that meet up with him during the War of Wrath think he’s as rabid and disturbing in his harsh blood-lust as any servant of Morgoth - cautionary fear of what they could become in this war on the shores of the land so heavily tainted by Melkor. So I’ve taken to calling this sigil Sakurai, not just for the cherry blossom pink but for the connection to the samurai - in this case to the dark militaristic take during World War II.
  • Heledir (Quenya Halatir) translates to “Kingfisher” and if you couldn’t tell from the color scheme, this is a Noldo. Not just any Noldo, but the name for a particular OC. Heledir is a follower of Finrod Felagund who served as the Captain of the Guard for Nargothrond, the direct military subordinate who led its armies and also trained its soldiers. Two of which were Gelmir and Gwindor. Others were among the ten - like Heledir himself - who chose to follow Finrod on the quest to aid Beren, and thus died in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth. My Band of the Red Hand. Aside from the blue and oranges of a very Noldor combination (Honestly, Finwë…), I wanted to evoke the coloration of kingfisher birds. The central design is actually copied from Finrod’s original pre-Bëorian sigil, though I added a ray profusion of arrows to show that Heledir was originally a hunter and then the Nargothrond equivalent to Mablung. As for Heledir himself, the captain of guard is a cheerful and prank-loving elf with a warm and protective fostering attitude towards the men under his care. And he loves to drag his friend and civilian counterpart, Edrahil, on long camping trips up to Lake Ivrin. (Yes, borrowing ideas off The Leithian Script.)
  • Soldier is my tongue-in-cheek reference to two OCs I based of characters from another canon. I’m sure you can guess which two. (Bân and Fâan, aka Zack Fair and Cloud Strife) The elven OCs are a pair of guards serving under Heledir who, when their king asks for volunteers to help in the quest for Beren, these two survivors of the Fen of Serech stand loyally with Finrod. And thus both of them die in captivity in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth. They are both exiles from Aman, one a dark-haired Noldo with bright eyes and a personality best described as exuberant, the other with the same blonde hair and at least partly Vanyar background like Glorfindel. Only this former farm-boy is both shier and less skillful than the mighty Balrog-Slayer - though there is a strength there that survives until almost the end. The senior soldier happens to be in a long-distance romance with one of Melian’s handmaiden, who learns around the time Princess Lúthien begs Daeron for help to mount a rescue that no more letters will reach her fair soldier beau. The second soldier has a girl back in Tirion that he wanted to impress by joining the fighting and becoming strong enough to come to her rescue one day. Instead, he will die in the werewolf pits delirious with pain after watching his best friend give up his own life to buy him a few more days. And the girl back home will join the Army of Valar under King Finarfin and punch her way through a few of Morgoth’s fell beasts in revenge for him. The sigil has the central device from Finrod and Heledir, and for once the bright aqua has less to do with Doriath and more to do with mako.
heget: custom sigil in blue and gold (Default)


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:

Dandelion, Saeros, Eowyn, Legolas, Water Lilies 01, Water Lilies 02, Lissë

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.

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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