Heraldy of the Circle

((Credit for the original Artwork goes to Curugirion))

The heraldy of the Circle, with the moon as source of arcane knowledge, the four stars resembling the members and the two cranes are their witnesses and guides.
That belief came from an old ballad telling of the legend of how the Circle came into being:

At pristine, forgotten time
A child there of the Stars sublime
Feanturi’s manifest in dream
Augustly risen in magic’s stream
Two cranes were the witness and the guide supreme

Gloom descended upon the world
Two cranes flew off
Banished by the dark unfurled
Momentum of the Noldorin depraved fate
Snow covers the land lying in wait

Child:
This is all no mystery
I know the bringers of the sempiternal night
Destroyers of the trees’ history
Inflictors of this unholy blight

Namo:
Child, let me reveal to thee
What thy world might come to be;
Sing the song bewailed of Eä’s decay
And become the torch of the Valarin way

Two cranes return at dawning hour
The sun deprived the night from all its power
Perennial scheme that died
Two kins that could not abide
Were by one another thus defied

Namo:
A kingly tribe come by means unjust
Child, thou now bear wisdom arcane
They tread on this endless path of pain
Behold them with these jewel’s lust

Child:
Cruel has been their fate’s design
Full of intends malign
Not alone by you was this decree
For with wisdom beyond fate such it shall not ever be

The child wrought bonds from moon-light’s shimmer
Four stars from Elven glimmer
Under a newborn sun a thought gave birth
Thus two cranes brought back the spring to earth

On Western Shore the Circle became rife
On that ground they cherished life:

Anirach govaded i chîr aer?
Nedir i narn lin naer
Têlin na chûd ne cherin
calad feana ne nîf dîn

(Would you like to see the arcane masters?
They weave your woeful story
They gather as Circle
A light illuminates the faces of their spirits)