: : Who can say me, what is the emblem of Arnor?
: : For Gondor it's a White Tree...

: : And does exist original JRRT's picture of it?

: : Thanks for all repliers...

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: I can't remember coming across a specific reference to an emblem for Arnor, though presumably it had one. I do remember an illustration by Tolkien of the throne of Elendil. On the back of the throne were the Tengwar letters making up the royal cypher: L-ND-L for Elendil. Perhaps, as Arnor was the senior kingdom, the successors of Elendil retained his cypher as an emblem perhaps in conjunction with seven stars.

It's a good question, and I don't have an answer (again, my frustration at the lack of information Tolkien provides on the Northern Kingdom).

Martin may be right, as a passage from ROTK suggests, in describing the standard Aragorn unfurls on the Corsair flagship:

"There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor; but Seven Stars were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil that no Lord had borne for years beyond count..."

It seems -- logically -- that the Seven Stars and the crown were the common symbols of the House of Elendil, whether in its Northern or Southern branches. Martin's suggestion that the crown and stars were arrayed around his cypher is as likely as any in the absence of better evidence, which I hope someone can provide.

It also puts the political significance of Aragorn's act in a better light. That he had the right to claim the kingship of the defunct Kingdom of Arnor, and display its symbols, no one, not even Denethor, could have challenged; but by displaying the Tree, Stars and crown, he was specifically displaying only his claim to Gondor's throne. It was indeed a bold act, and one which could have generated great difficulties if Denethor had not committed suicide. Not that there was much to lose -- the Dunedain of the North had not the power or the base to reconstitute the Kingdom of Arnor save as an adjunct to a revived Gondor.

Of course, it appears that Aragorn intended Gondor's standard to be the symbol of the entire Reunited Realm after assuming the throne -- or at least there is no evidence to the contrary.

Oberon