Gondor Flags
I've collected a lot of flags concerning Gondor and its provinces, Arnor and
its successor realms (Arthedain, Cardolan and Rhudaur), Dwarven strongholds,
Saruman's tyranny and others.
Here are a dozen Gondor standards. Many details in the flags are fully
unknown to anyone except Tolkien himself, so I've had to "invent" some of them.
For example, I gave the flags a 2-tailed "VEXILLUM" shape rather than the
conventional flag-shape, flying from a vertical masthead. The fimbriation around
the field and some colors are also hypotetical, as you will see.
This first set of flags includes:
- KINGS' STANDARD. You'll note that all the figures in the flag are
white: tree, stars and crown (the Royal livery is exclusively black and
white). The shape of the crown is hypotetical, based on European XIIIth
century depictings of crowns. The stars in the flag are 5-pointed: it has been
argued that the seven stars are to be 5-pointed to resemble the shape of the
dunedain's home-island of Numenor and its own blazon (a single 5-pointed
star).
- STEWARDS' STANDARD. Plain white, of course.
- CITY OF OSGILIATH. Like 1, without the royal crown.
- to 12. PROVINCES AND FIEFS OF GONDOR (Lebennin, Ithilien,
Lossarnach, Anfalas, ...). The gondorian provincial flags depict the same
general pattern: a white tree on a plain black field, plus a provincial
blazon. The fiefs' flags also depict similar patterns, but you should be aware
that the colors are hypotetical, as it is their black field (because these
fiefs might have shown their own liveries, as certainly did Belfalas, in fact
a half-independent principality whose capital city was Dol Amroth).

May the stars shine upon the
hour of our meeting.
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