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:

Amroth, Amdir, Nimrodel, Mithrellas

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.

Remember me complaining about how difficult it was to make the Arafinwion sigils?

Well, in the process of trying to make them, one of the failed designs was this- with a central elements from Finarfin but in darker greens and four white flowers. Which, after I looked at it, made me think of Amroth of Lothlórien -its lord before Galadriel and Celeborn. Especially with the darker greens and fluted white lilies make me think of him and Nimrodel. Now because some versions have Amroth as Galadriel and Celeborn’s son, while the more common version has him as Amdir's son but good friends with them, I adopt my ‘little of both’ headcanon where he was either their son but fostered from a young age with Amdir, or vice versa. Thus he can have the symbol of Finarfin in muted colors in the center of his device. Which ends up looking sort of like the Cerin Amroth or Caras Galadhon…

Later, I was requested by laurelsblue to make Amdir and/or Mithrellas, so I decided to round out the Lórinand/Laurelindórnan set. Hooray for the Second and Third Age.
While I still hold mutually exclusive head-canons of which background is canon for Amroth - if he is the son of Galadriel and Celeborn or Amdir - he is the second lord of the Golden Woods and the basis on which I worked the rest of this set.

For Amdir I took Amroth’s sigil and removed the Finarfinwion central element and retained only the more muted shades of green and brown - which as they are the same or similar to the palette for the Mirkwood and other Nandorin sigils it works perfectly for this Sindar lord living among the Silvan and Nandor west of the Misty Mountains. I kept and repeated the simplified lily motif and added a very art nouveau inspired stem with double seed pods. And some subtle leaves in the background. Another name for this character was Malgalad, and he died with half of his troops cut off during the Battle of Dagorlad.

Nimrodel took the basic shape and the leaves from Amdir, but a little warmer and golden for the neutrals. The pale yellow is the same from that of Celebrían, which fits their mutual connection to the rulers of Lothlórien. Nimrodel was the beloved of a Lord of Lothlórien, after all. At first I thought to have something blue for her stream, but it clashed. The browns invoke the platforms of the flets of her arboreal house. Overall it feels warm and clearly celebratory of her home.

Mithrellas is an alternate of Nimrodel’s leaf wreath with a heavily stylized flower in pale eglantine. I can make a case for fewer points, as befitting a lady-in-waiting. Again no blue for the ancestress of Dol Amroth, but the white and black center is vaguely Gondorian. And something about another pale pink flower like the ones on Finduilas’s sigil for the most obscure Elf/Edain marriage - and the only one that truly fits the European fairy bride archetypal tale, what with the man taking home a lost elven bride, her bearing him children, and then abandoning the family after a period of years. All other peredhil couples stay together and share a fate (or implied to with Tuor/Idril). So what was up with Mithrellas and Imrazôr?