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.
And because I started with Lúthien, I’ll continue with Beren Camlost and the rest of the Houses of the Edain. All four are almost direct copies of Tolkien’s watercolors of the four sigils. Beren is simple to understand: the black tri-peak of Thangorodrim before the horizon, the red hand he lost to Carcharoth, what is likely the Silmaril in the center, and the star of hope above.
It was hard to pick the precise accurate shades for Bëor off the scans of the original images. I went with muted colors I thought worked well. It’s very simple and abstract and follows elven instead of human symmetry (radial instead of vertical, probably Tolkien making a point of while the Hadorim superficially loved most elven, it was the Bëor with the greater spirituality).
I like to call the Hador sigil Conan the Color-blind. Eesh. Spears and mountains on a misty gray background.
For Haleth I removed the lines of green ‘vines’ on the nut-bearing tree because it destroyed the vertical symmetry and looked ugly. Therefore it’s not 100% accurate to Tolkien’s design.
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