Of Heraldic Devices From Tolkein
OF HERALDIC DEVICES FROM TOLKEIN This article was written by @Siddharth in 2011 not meant to be published. As he is a Tolkein admirer. So am I. It is a tribute to Tolkein. In case this jem of a detailed note on LoTR and Tolkien is lost in the cloud of sea of data, it is stored in my blog page link . Enjoy LoTR. Tolkien went to great depths, in all of his works to improve the finer details of his world to make his world “believable”, and created near perfect languages, inscriptions, runes. He made maps of the realms that he conceived. According to the author, believability is one of the key features in all tales - fantasy or not, a key element which most writers miss. Tolkien was a professor and a writer. But he could also sketch, a talent dwarfed by his writing-skills. He himself dismissed many illustrators who had come up with their own versions of his texts. He himself has left many sketches of his tales. In his Middle-earth saga, he has written about hundreds of cities a