About your Tolkien heraldry: Why do you use lozenges for female designs?

On the images themselves for all the sigils, male and female, they fit inside a square. Originally the designs were made as part of a texture for a 3D model, so the image had to be a square (and then rotated 135 degrees when mapped into the model). So while the female sigils are circles, as per Tolkien, there is the extra corners of fabric, so to speak, for their images as opposed to male. They aren’t part of the design logo proper. Sometimes I’ll edit the file image, like for use as avatars, to remove the corners and keep only the circle – and then have to insure I save the correct format to keep the opacity. But it’s a style and file consistency and a holdover.

Thingol, in a letter to her daughter and husband trying not to sound desperate bout turin’s pre-teen angst, and in a very round about way basically asks ‘what do I do’ and Beren just stands up looks dramatically into the sunset and is like ‘my time has come’ and basically writes the first book on mannish puberty by accident (laws and customs of the eldar….where is my laws and customs of the edian? it could have been finrod’s retirement idea)

vardasvapors:

“MY TIME HAS COME” adjhvksjdkxvd

heyooooo this is actually, the best tol galen retirement project of all. IN THIS CHAPTER I COMPARE: MY RUMORED ADOPTED BROTHER-IN-LAW. MY SON. MY WIFE. ME. HOW SIMILAR AND DISSIMILAR ARE THE FIRST AND SECONDBORN? MY THESIS IS—