Heget's Blatherings

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:

Morwen, Nienor Níniel

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.

adenydd requested Túrin’s mother and sister, and as I had already made a personal sigil for Turambar himself and a few other Edain, aside from the canon device for Beren, I thought it high time to give a few of the mortal ladies a special sigil. And both of the are important enough socially and to the plot to justify it. Also, follower request, so of course I would attempt it.

• Morwen - she was beautiful enough to earn the title Elfsheen, but also touchy with inner steel strength and pride. I had some art nouveau roses set aside and thought Morwen would be a perfect match. Made sure to give the roses large and pointy thorns. The green, gray, and red all come from either the Hador or Bëor sigil, as Morwen was born of one tribe and married into the other. The emphasis on circles is also a carry-over from the Bëor sigil.
• If Morwen had red roses, then Nienor got white. And I can justify my arbitrariness by pointing out that the ‘Lay of Leithian’ mentions white roses growing in Neldoreth, and Nienor does spend time in that area. Plus white roses seem to be something the ties into Nienna the Vala of grief and winter. (That white roses are also symbols of remembrance, weddings, purity, innocence, and new beginnings…) Same for the use of blue-grays. While based heavily on her mother’s sigil, Nienor’s device also matches that for Túrin with the red rays on gold. And the dragon scale pattern - Glaurung has to be there somehow. The spears are from Hador (and Tuor).