Goblin-Town Banner

I Am Frodo · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:01 am

I know this isnt serious, believable or possible. Dont get angry or you know :Smackdown:

But what do you think a Goblin-town banner would look like? I'm not going to make one, i just want to see everyone's idea

KnightyKnight · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:12 am

It could be cool to see some banners scattered throughout a goblin army or goblin board even if they're not used as actual equipment.

The trouble is that goblin-town doesn't really have anything that stands out as distinctive iconography. The goblins of Moria have the Balrog, orcs across Middle Earth have the Red Eye, orcs/uruks of Cirith Ungol have Shelob/the Tower of Cirith Ungol, etc etc.

All goblin town has is a really fat goblin... and I'm not sure anyone would want to see or paint that onto a banner...

Angularity · **Joined:** Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:56 am **Posts:** 157

Whatever it is, it'll be dirty and not very well painted.

Goldman25 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:27 am

Possibly the animal skulls on the Goblin King's staff, crowned with his crown. I can't see it being well-painted though, because Goblins are the least artistic creatures in existence. They'd probably just use spears with enemy corpses/bones on top as their banners. To make them, you could thin one of the support struts from the Goblin-town scenery or cut off the top part of it.

Tharkan · **Joined:** Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:29 pm **Posts:** 55

Several putrid heads stacked horizontally with their hair laying as a banner? (dwarven beards, or human/elven long hairs. The hair size long seems to be longer when death due to dehydration) As the others said, I'm not sure about their icon, but I agree if there is something painted must be really primitive and with goat (or human or whatever) blood as paint.

Note: I don't remember where I read it, but I think the "human" skulls in Goblin King staff belongs to his wives.

Rognarr · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:50 pm

yep, the skulls are remains of his ex-wives...
its written in the hobbit chronicke design book

as motive for a banner i'd pic simple-painted animal skulls too.. or a stylized warg head

I Am Frodo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:02 am

Tharkan wrote:

Several putrid heads stacked horizontally with their hair laying as a banner?

Yeah, I think i know what you mean. Let my try my ascii.

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000000000000000 <- Putrid Heads?
SSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSS <- Hair?
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:sauron: · **Joined:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:34 am **Posts:** 1

Bad ascii

I Am Frodo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:27 pm

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