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Silmarillion Sigils and Summaries
Warning, I have to talk a little about the characters themselves. The majority of these designs were made with an individual character in mind, and together I can comply a large-scale 3-dimentional family tree. But for the most part I'll try to be succinct, and I have helpful GIFs and other images. Some of this should be logical. The thing is, I know all the characters names and what sigils go with whom. But despite my labeling of every file by number and name, most people wouldn't know Finrod from Elmo. And I also apologize that some of these characters have very similar names- and that some of the sigils naturally have to look very similar.
A Note on How Content is Divided: If you want to get everything on the simplest of terms, Grab the meshes from the first post and then scroll down to the last posts where I break everything up by sets according to the object. However, if you only want a few of the wall hangings and rugs by pattern as you look through all the swatches I'm covering, there will be links under each 'family' of all the matching banners and sigils.
Thus, if you want to download that way, HERE are all the necessary meshes, minus the elven banner set from right above (and the one recolor set is of a Nightlife mesh, so can't package that up anyway).
So, here is the default image of the elven banner meshes. For all other meshes it is just another recolor file...
Luthien 02Now for each possible recolor pattern I'm showing how it applies to three different meshes. The one on the left is from psychosims' flag set, which is a large reposited set and my direct inspiration for the elven banners. That set has free standing and wall banners from one story to two story, banners that hang perpendicular to the wall, and even a tiny desk size. However the mesh does not work well with the sigils, so for that recolor set I'm only taking the banner part of the elven banner recolors and applying to the mesh. On the right is the elven banner, with its two subsets of sigil and banner. In the center is a recolor of a SDA medieval tapestry. This one is Tapisserie2x1, and combines both the sigil and the banner. There is also a long rectangluar two-tile SDA tapestry that I recolored just the 'banner', so it looks similar to the psychosim set of recolors. The only exceptions I will point out as I get to them.
As for the design- I call this one luthien02 because the author made two complete different but equally valid heraldric motifs for the character Lúthien. As she is a rather important elven princess, we allow it. Now the design itself is rather complex- though you'll notice it fits inside a circle (female) and it is perfectly symmetrical if mirrored horizontally or vertically. The colors are very bright, and I used them to make the banner. The white flowers are thematically linked to her, so they pop up often.
The reason I chose this sigil as the default was simply because it was the prettiest and most elaborate of the sigils I had at the time, plus of the numerous Silmarillion editions, the most common picture to put on the covers is a rendition of this sigil.
I made notes of whenever the design you are looking at is an honest-to-goodness "Tolkien Original". Most aren't. This one, obvious, was.
( The rest of the recolors for the Ainur and the Vanyar are behind here )
