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:

Mithrim, Meril, Ereglas (old), Ereglas 02, Eregiel

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.

All original, all basically OCs- I elaborate on them elsewhere, but these are the sigils for the Sindar lords of Northern Beleriand, in particular the Mithrim who first ally with the Noldor under Fingolfin, and the young ladies from that family who provide as previously unnamed wives and mothers.
The way the devices are set up, plus the use of silver, dark gray, and black, are something I tried to keep very consistent with my Sindar.

• Mithrim is the sigil for the house in general and the personal device of the OC I finally named Eredhon. (Picture and description here). The shape is similar to those for Elmo and his family, with a small dash of Lúthien’s second sigil. The stylized floral elements are also key to my Sindar sigils- in this case hearkening to ornamental grasses to evoke the rolling plains of Ard Galen - and Eredhon’s early life as a reed weaver with his sister Linkwinên at Cuiviénen.
• Next is Meril, mother of Gil-galad. Her name means rose, and thus she has red flowers in an art nouveau design. She is the oldest of Eredhon’s grandchildren, and the name comes from one of the various proposed family trees for Ereinion Gil-galad. Simple and beautiful - and we won’t say anything about how the flower matching a lily more than a rose. Meril as the canny and powerful Lady of Hithlum, politically savvy and very intelligent. Which, if she’s married to Fingon, well, somebody has to be the smart one in that marriage.
• Ereglas was the name I initially adopted for her first cousin, the wife of Orodreth and mother of Finduilas. Her device centers around the holly. Though I was never as pleased with it as Meril’s, especially after I made the sigil for Finduilas. So as Ereglas is one of those gender-neutral names, I decided to rework the proposed name tree. Ereglas 02, reworked to fit the parameters of a male sigil, becomes the device for Eredhon’s second son who allies not with Fingolfin but with Finrod. His daughter, going by the oh-so-creative placeholder name of Eregiel, is the unnamed but needed mother of Finduilas. Her sigil has more similarities to her older and more glamorous cousin Meril, but retains the holly leaf. And her poppy-like flower is closer to the pale pink blooms of her daughter’s sigil.