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**A2, watercolour, ink and pencil**

So I guess I finally have to write an explanation of all this. OK, so to start with, from top to bottom we have (in the heraldry middle panel):

(NB heraldry diamonds that are around the edges, more incomplete than complete, are random designs, Noldor we do not know)

top row: Amras*, Celebrimbor*, Amrod*
2nd row: Nerdanel*, Miriel*
3rd row: Maedhros*, Finwë, Maglor*
4th row: Fëanor, Fingolfin
5th row: Fingon*, Finarfin, Turgon*
6th row: Aredhel, Idril
7th row: Finrod*, Galadriel*, Orodreth*
8th row: Gil-galad, Eärendil
9th row: Caranthir*, Celegorm*, Curufin*
(* - my designs, no * - Tolkien's original designs, if generally very slightly altered)

Note: female roundels. These were all given a small outer design to fit them into a diamond shape

Note: Finrod. *gasp* its not the right design, is it? Where now the harp and the harpstring, and the bright flames flowing from the torch? Well - they've gone. I don't like them. At all. There is some justification for this - it has been suggested that the flame and harp design was a device created for Finrod by Men, and that makes sense to me, as the design is much more like a man thingy than an elf thingy. There is also an old note from Tolkien saying that the rayed sun device of Finarfin extended down through his family - and so I've done that here ...

Elvish knotwork

The other new and cool thing (I think) in here is the knotwork panelling around the edges. If you look closely, you'll see that the knotwork contains places where 3 strands meet. This was done deliberately, in an attempt to create a different style of knotwork, something different from the traditions we normally see. It worked out as a very flowing style of knotwork, which I really like for the elvish designs.

And all the "brown" around the outside is gold really. Yes, it is! I promise: [link]

Description
**A2, watercolour, ink and pencil**

So I guess I finally have to write an explanation of all this. OK, so to start with, from top to bottom we have (in the heraldry middle panel):

(NB heraldry diamonds that are around the edges, more incomplete than complete, are random designs, Noldor we do not know)

top row: Amras*, Celebrimbor*, Amrod*
2nd row: Nerdanel*, Miriel*
3rd row: Maedhros*, Finwë, Maglor*
4th row: Fëanor, Fingolfin
5th row: Fingon*, Finarfin, Turgon*
6th row: Aredhel, Idril
7th row: Finrod*, Galadriel*, Orodreth*
8th row: Gil-galad, Eärendil
9th row: Caranthir*, Celegorm*, Curufin*
(* - my designs, no * - Tolkien's original designs, if generally very slightly altered)

Note: female roundels. These were all given a small outer design to fit them into a diamond shape

Note: Finrod. *gasp* its not the right design, is it? Where now the harp and the harpstring, and the bright flames flowing from the torch? Well - they've gone. I don't like them. At all. There is some justification for this - it has been suggested that the flame and harp design was a device created for Finrod by Men, and that makes sense to me, as the design is much more like a man thingy than an elf thingy. There is also an old note from Tolkien saying that the rayed sun device of Finarfin extended down through his family - and so I've done that here ...

Elvish knotwork

The other new and cool thing (I think) in here is the knotwork panelling around the edges. If you look closely, you'll see that the knotwork contains places where 3 strands meet. This was done deliberately, in an attempt to create a different style of knotwork, something different from the traditions we normally see. It worked out as a very flowing style of knotwork, which I really like for the elvish designs.

And all the "brown" around the outside is gold really. Yes, it is! I promise: [link]