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:
The Silmarils

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.

As a special gift to myself and all my followers, I decided it was time that I tackle that last “Tolkien Original”. I may not ever recreate the full Númenórean sigil (but that thing is a nightmare) but there was one last sigil design from Tolkien’s watercolors that I had put aside. It is the only heraldry example we have not for a person or a country or unit, but for an object. As these are the rather important plot trinkets for several stories in the Silmarillion, and that which gives the published work its name, if any object is entitled to one, it would be the Silmarils. Well, I think the Two Trees themselves would be a little higher on the list.

But as for the sigil itself, it’s pretty self-explanatory. Yet another brand new star design inside a white circle are the three gems, and the tree in the background, going by the gold elements, is Laurelin. Don’t ask me why Tolkien only put that one tree - maybe as a balance for all the white trees elsewhere, as the White Tree of Gondor represents saplings from Nimloth, taken from Celeborn on Tol Eressëa from Galathilion the White Tree in Tirion that Yavanna made from Telperion. The tree design is very close to that used for the sigil of Haleth.