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Old 07-27-2002, 03:56 PM   #17
Fingolfin of the Noldor
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It's no problem, [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Welcome [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Indeed it is a personal heraldric device of Fingolfin. Here are a couple notes of Tolkien's someone I know posted which helped me to understand it better:

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(Note on rules taken from Tolkien Artist and Illustrator, which were in turn taken from the Bodelian Library)
  • Women within a circle = personal
  • Men within a lozenge = personal
  • General (Impersonal) designs or emblems of a family = square (or [?] once, circular)
  • The rank was usually held to be shown by the number of 'points' which reached the outer rim
  • 4 was prince
    6-8 kings
  • the great ancestors had as many [as] 16 in the House of Finwe
[ July 27, 2002: Message edited by: Fingolfin of the Noldor ]
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