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I've been a LOTR and Hobbit fan since I was still in school (that is, for many, many decades) but I'm more familiar with the books than the movies.

Personally, I really like your design. It's very elegant. You might need a light colored version to put on dark horses, though. Either that, or an adjustment to the transparency.

I think giving it a colored background would make it look more like a stamp than a tattoo. The right shade of green might work for the lines, but I found, with my first tattoo in HaJ1, that some shades of green look extremely fuzzy on darker chestnuts and bays, especially the bays. I outlined my stable tattoo with a white to make it show up at all legibly on those horses, and it's still less distinct there.

The elegant simplicity of the lines on this tattoo really make it outstanding, to me, and messing with them by backgrounds and alternate color tracings would disturb that. You could try out various green shades on different colored horses, even if they weren't pearl, to make sure which one would work best. That can be expensive, but I've always found it worth the cost of removing tattoos frequently, so that I have something that looks good on a variety of colors.

How about this?

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Thank you for the help :) Now I wonder if anyone will know what it is rofl

I love Lord of the rings, it's been a while since I've watched the movies, does it have to do with the elves?!

I knew what it was immediately! Or at least I think I did. It's the Arkenstone, isn't it? (Naming your stallion The Kings Jewel did help)

It has to do with the Arkenstone. It's the symbol on Thror's throne that the Arkenstone sits in the middle of :)