heget’s Silmarillion Sigil Set
your daily dose, (4/?)
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.
In order:
Finwë, Fëanor, Findis, Fingolfin, Lalwen, Finarfin 01, Finarfin 02
Previous Entries:
- HERE is the master-list.
Notes:
Okay, I decided some House of Finwë today. I’ll save more non-canon Minyar sigils for tomorrow.
heget’s Silmarillion Sigil Set
your daily dose, (3/?)
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.
In order:
Ingwë 01, Ingwë 02, Indis
Previous Entries:
- HERE is the master-list.
Notes:
I needed sigils and flags for the Vanyar (okay, I needed to make these for nearly everyone) but especially the first Eldar royal family, and I think it took me over a year and four design overhauls before I had something I was satisfied with and didn’t look too out of place with the few Tolkien originals.
I had two constants during the numerous redesigns:
- the color scheme of shades of yellow and gold on white
- the # of points touching the edge (Elven hierarchy had 8 points for a king, Finwë as Noldor High King had 16, so logically Ingwë as High King of All Elves has …32)
The final design is very sunflower, but it pairs nicely with all the white and gold trimmed banners. For Ingwë I made two versions of the first device because I couldn’t decide on which color variation. One then for Ingwë and the other can be for his sons. Indis was simple in that I cut the device to fit into a circle instead of the square lozenge and modified the elements slightly, adding some sky blue for reasons connected to Finwë.
heget’s Silmarillion Sigil Set
your daily dose, (2/?)
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.
In order:
Beren Erchamion, House of Bëor, House of Hador, House of Haleth
Previous Entries:
- HERE is the master-list.
Notes:
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.
heget’s Silmarillion Sigil Set
your daily dose, (1/?)
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.
In order:
Lúthien 01, Lúthien 02
Previous Entries:
- HERE is the master-list.
Notes:
I’m starting with Lúthien 01 and 02, both reproductions of the original Tolkien designs. More to come (have close to 100 of these things).
Both have the white niphredil that first bloomed when she was born.
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